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Looking for the right person to join our team as we integrate multi-omic data and computational and AI approaches to identify treatment response profiles to immunotherapy using liquid biopsy!

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Fellow position at the New Brunswick Center for Precision Medicine, under the  supervision of Dr. Rodney Ouellette (M.D., Ph.D.) and Dr. Eric Allain (Ph.D.) of the newly formed Artificial Intelligence Magnified Precision Oncology (AIMPRO) Group. The postdoctoral fellow will work with multi-omic data from patient extracellular liquid biopsy with various methods in computational biology and bioinformatics. The postdoctoral fellow will be involved in projects that aim to understand the pre-treatment immune context in cancer patients receiving checkpoint inhibitors. Our primary goal is use bioinformatics and AI to understand the baseline profiles in patients and how these may predict treatment response/non-response. The candidate will also work with renown AI expert and collaborator Dr Moulay Akhloufi (PhD) of the Université de Moncton to employ machine learning algorithms on complex multisource patient sample data. Dr. Ouellette is the RR Leger Chair in Precision Cancer Research and has 25 years of experience in mentoring trainees at different levels. Most of his trainees successfully transition to academic, governmental, and private sector employment. Dr Allain is an emerging young researcher with an expertise in biology and bioinformatics. The successful candidates will work in a multidisciplinary environment and participate in research decision-making.  Findings will be presented in international conferences and peer-reviewed journals.

Postdoctoral Associate, Virus Evolution and Bioinformatics

The Poon lab (https://github.com/PoonLab) focuses on the development and application of computational methods to reconstruct the molecular evolution and epidemiology of human RNA viruses.  We seek to fill an opening for a Postdoctoral Associate to study non-parametric clustering methods and their application to reconstruct transmission patterns from the genetic divergence of virus infections.

The lab is situated on Western University (https://uwo.ca) campus in London, Ontario, in a newly-renovated space adjacent to three other bioinformatics research groups (genomic epidemiology, spatial transcriptomics, machine learning).

Salary: $70K per year, including benefits

Duration: 2 years, renewable

Start date: September 1, 2023, or earlier as needed

How to apply: Send a CV, contact information for at least two work-related references, and (optionally) examples of your source code to apoon42@uwo.ca

The Uzun Laboratory at the Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Hershey, PA, is seeking a postdoctoral scholar in computational biology.

The Verschoor laboratory is looking for a post-doctoral fellow to investigate the utility of epigenome-wide DNA methylation patterns as a tool to understand and define the risk of acute and long-term health outcomes. Current areas of interest include: 1) the epigenomic basis of chronic inflammation and its relation to health trajectories in older adults, and 2) the oral methylome as an indicator of treatment-related complications and survivorship in head and neck cancer patients. Our laboratory in situated at the Health Sciences North Research Institute in Sudbury, Ontario (hsnri.ca) and is affiliated with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University (nosm.ca).