GENETICS & GENOMICS PROGRAMMER AND DATA ANALYST, School of Medicine, Genetics, Molecular Medicine

Job Summary

The successful applicant will implement various computational frameworks/analysis strategies for multiple ongoing and emerging genetics and genomics projects in Alzheimer disease, substance use disorders, and age-related macular degeneration involving high-throughput, next generation sequencing (NGS) datasets.

Responsibilities

• Direct the development and maintenance of genome-wide association and genomic analysis pipelines and the implementation of various analysis strategies.
• Carry out risk prediction analyses utilizing genetic, clinical, demographic, and other risk factor data.
• Respond to requests for analysis from faculty, postdocs, and collaborators; and collaborate with them in interpretation of data, and in the preparation of manuscripts, grants, and presentations.
• Train students, postdocs and faculty in pipeline use; and test and utilize new software and tools, modifying them as needed to adapt to specific research needs.
• Prepare tables and figures for manuscripts that report results from data analyses.

Requirements

• Strong programming and analytic skills in R and Python or Perl.
• Strong scientific writing skills.
• Three years relevant work or graduate education experience.

Qualifications

• Biological/Statistical knowledge preferred but not required.

Skills

• Programming and analytic skills in R and Python or Perl.
• Scientific writing skills.

Benefits

• The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, training and internal pay comparison.

Pay

• Minimum $62,525.00
• Maximum $81,175.00

Schedule

• Full-Time/Regular