Bioinformatics Scientist

About the role

The Bioinformatics Scientist will provide support services to satisfy the overall operational objectives of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) within the National Institutes of Health.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with staff on a multi-disciplinary study of human immune aging
• Perform computational analyses and modeling of large biological data sets including Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
• Generate and analyze high-throughput data, including data from bulk and single cell RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, DNA methylation, proteomic flow cytometry and CyTOF phenotyping
• Collaborate with staff to establish innovative software and computational tools to enable the Center for Immune Aging to perform complex computational data analyses
• Train and mentor staff in the use of software and computational tools
• Collaborate with experimentalists and computational biologists to develop new computational tools to answer research questions of interest that pertain to inflammation and immune dysfunction that occurs with human aging
• Collect, analyze and interpret data; prepare reports and summaries based on results and findings
• Attend laboratory meetings; present data for staff discussion