"Bioinformaticist"

We are currently seeking a Bioinformatician to join our exceptional, motivated, and highly collaborative team bridging the Division of Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. This position focuses on analyzing metagenomic and human transcriptional data from human clinical samples using high dimensional statistics. In addition, this position involves study design and leading research projects from analysis to manuscript writing and presentation.

Core Responsibilities:

• Perform analyses of single cell RNA sequencing data
• Design and implement bioinformatics and statistical analyses of next-generation sequencing data representing microbiome and host transcriptome
• Analyze features of the antimicrobial resistome and virulome
• Carry out phylogenetic analyses
• Assemble microbial genomes from metagenomic data
• Apply statistical techniques designed for assessment of high dimensional genomic data including microbiome data
• Implement computational and statistical approaches for performing time series analyses of metagenomic data
• Perform differential gene expression analyses on RNAseq data
• Utilize unsupervised methods to detect latent subgroups/clusters in high dimensional datasets
• Carry out analyses of proteomics, metabolomics and mass cytometry data
• Teach bioinformatics techniques to other laboratory members and students
• Contribute to research study design including leading design of bioinformatics methods
• Write manuscripts, contribute to grant writing, and present research findings at national meetings
• Utilize large language models to enhance machine learning-based infectious disease diagnostic studies.

The salary range for this position is $119,900 - $210,000 (Annual Rate).

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