Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
The Farhat Lab in the Department of Biomedical Informatics is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral research fellow interested in pursuing innovative studies in the field of infectious disease genomics and its translation to the clinic. The research aims to enhance our understanding of the biology of M. tuberculosis infections and identify molecular markers for the diagnosis and surveillance. This position provides outstanding opportunities for continued scientific development and for contributing to pioneering research.
Responsibilities
- Apply and develop code to process and analyze mycobacterial molecular and phenotype data.
- Create production-ready code for dissemination to other laboratories and for diagnostic use.
- Manage large-scale data.
- Collaborate with a team of computational and experimental postdoctoral fellows, graduate, and undergraduate students, and a software and web engineer.
Requirements
- PhD in Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Microbiology, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Applied Math, or related field.
- Strong coding/computing skills.
- Familiarity or strong interest in the analysis of pathogen genomic/molecular data.
Apply
Please send your application to [email protected].
Maha Farhat, MD, MSc
Gilbert S. Omenn Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Associate Director, Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG) PhD Track
Farhat Lab
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