Employer: Medicine / Section of Computational Biomedicine, Boston University
Location: Boston, MA, United States
Posted: Jul 30, 2013
Expires: Oct 29, 2013
- Description
- We are looking for a post-doctoral associate in Computational Biology and Cancer Genomics to join the Section of Computational Biomedicine at the BU School of Medicine. The candidate will have the opportunity to work in a unique computationally-oriented section within the medical campus, pursuing highly collaborative projects with significant translational impact, alongside both computational and life science researchers at BU, and collaborators at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute. Our goal is to develop and apply methods to analyze High-Throughput Sequencing (primarily Illumina-based coding and non-coding RNA-sequencing, and whole-exome sequencing) data for the dissection and understanding of the molecular pathways contributing to tumorigenesis.
The candidate should have strong computational foundations, with the goal of designing, implementing, and/or applying machine-learning and statistical algorithms to analyze and integrate multiple sources of genomic data toward the identification of novel therapeutic targets and of diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers.
The position would be for a minimum of three years. The ideal candidate will have: an interdisciplinary background in bioinformatics & computational biology and cancer genomics; advanced expertise in the analysis and interpretation of sequencing data and its integration with other data sources, including expression micro-arrays and copy-number SNP-arrays; good programming skills; and advanced knowledge of statistical and machine learning methods.
Requirements: Qualified candidates should have:- A Ph.D. in computational biology, bioinformatics, computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, or related field.
- Ability to program in Perl or Python and R, with knowledge of MATLAB and/or Java a plus.
- Familiarity with Unix systems.
- Demonstrated applied bioinformatics/computational proficiency as evidenced by relevant publications in peer-reviewed journals
- To apply
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Address inquiries to:
Stefano Monti, Ph.D.
Section of Computational Biomedicine
Boston University School of Medicine
72 E. Concord St. E-613B
Email: montilab@bu.edu