"Postdoctoral Fellow"

Job Details

Department: Biological and Genome Sciences - 428201

Posting Open Date: 08/18/2022

Open Until Filled: Yes

Position Type: Postdoctoral Scholar

Position Title: Postdoctoral Fellow

Vacancy ID: PDS003562

Full-time/Part-time: Full-Time Temporary

Hours per week: 40

FTE: 1

Work Location: Chapel Hill, NC

Position Location: North Carolina, US

Hiring Range: $47,476 - $55,000

Proposed Start Date: 09/05/2022

Estimated Duration of Appointment: 12 Months

Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit: The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service. Our vision is to be the nation’s leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding. Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond. Education: We will prepare tomorrow’s health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce. Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.

Position Summary: T32 Postdoctoral Fellow position. This is a one-year, time limited position with the possibility to extend to 2 years. This is a computational position that offers a collaborative opportunity between basic science (computational genome science) and clinic (allergy and immunology). The successful applicant will be supported by the UNC T32 Allergy and Immunology Training Program with the goal of providing research training to individuals to broaden their scientific background and extend their potential for research in allergy and immunology. It is important to note that this position is contingent on T32 funding.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements: The ideal candidate for this position has a strong background in the analysis of multi-omics data, especially microbiome data. The person in this position will work under supervision of the PI, the co-PI and within the Allergy and Immunology team, with other students and postdocs in the lab, on the development of novel computational methods and data pipelines. Able to present complex results, both verbally and in writing to bioinformatics and non-bioinformatics audiences of all levels. Comfortable working and handling several concurrent projects. Knowledge of Python or R is preferred. Ability to analyze multi-omic data, including microbiome data, would be an advantage. Ability to build algorithms and data pipelines would be ideal.

Required Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience: PhD in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or related discipline.

Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience: PhD in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or related discipline. Knowledge of Python or R is preferred. Ability to analyze multi-omic data, including microbiome data, would be an advantage. Ability to build algorithms and data pipelines would be ideal.

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