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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).

A post-doctoral fellowships (PDF) position in the field of machine learning/computational biology is available in the School of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia/Vancouver General Hospital. The incumbents will join an interdisciplinary team working to establish a program on machine learning applications in pathology and genomics. Candidates are expected to have extensive experience in one or more of the following areas: diverse areas of machine learning and statistics especially deep neural networks, statistics, and image processing. The candidate will play an important role in the project team, including authoring grants, conducting large-scale international projects, managing collaborations, disseminating research findings, and assisting in managing junior lab members. Organizational Status: The successful candidate will report to the Principal Investigator (Director of AI Research at OVCARE, Dr. Ali Bashashati).

We seek a talented and highly motivated postdoc to join our collaborative team jointly led by Drs. Parisa Shooshtari and Christopher Pin to study the epigenetic mechanisms of pancreatic cancer. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience with the analysis of next generation sequencing data, and is enthusiastic to apply advanced bioinformatics analysis to multi-omics data to uncover the cellular and molecular mechanisms of the disease. This postdoctoral position provides a unique opportunity to receive training in a world-class setting and in collaboration with scientists from Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), Western University Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, and the University of Michigan and Henry Ford Clinic in Detroit. This project is funded by MITACS, CIHR, and NSERC as well as provincial and local sources. Competitive salaries will be available to the successful candidate and commiserate with their level of experience.