Bioinformatics / Wet lab Hybrid: Research Assistant and Associate in Bioinformatics

BRAINCODE, the bioinformatics team at the Neuro – McGill University, Dr. Kevin Petrecca’s Lab, is recruiting Bioinformatics Research Assistant, Associate. We are applying state-of-the-art technologies, including our single cell spatial transcriptomics platform, to our highly valuable and unique human brain datasets, enabling us to uncover fundamental biological mechanisms that govern brain cancer initiation, development and evolution, as well as the biology of human brain. We offer a competitive salary, in line with McGill’s salary range, and based on your skills and experience.

Under the direction and supervision of BRAINCODE lead (Javad Nadaf, PhD), you will perform advanced bioinformatics analyses to interpret biological Omics data such as variant calling, annotations, single-nucleus ATAC-seq, single cell transcriptomic, spatial transcriptomics, and other Omics data on brain datasets. The job is a Hybrid of dry lab and wet lab. Most of the responsibilities are bioinformatics with some wet lab work related to upstream and potentially downstream of the data analysis.

• Your responsibilities will be from the list below and based on your skills:
  • Applying bioinformatics approaches for the analysis of omics datasets.
  • benchmarking new bioinformatics programs.
  • Staying informed of the best bioinformatics practices relevant to biological problems and contribute to problem-solving bioinformatics discussions, developing tools, and writing scientific manuscripts.
  • Performing Wet lab experiments related to upstream and downstream of the bioinformatics data analysis.

• At a minimum, undergraduate or graduate degree in a quantitative science, with at least 2 years of experience in analysis of omics data and wet lab experiments, or undergraduate or graduate degree in biology with at least 2 years of experience in programming and data analysis.
• Strong programming skills in R and/or Python.
• Great at teamwork.
• Communication skills in English or French, spoken and written.