Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Neuroepigenomics

About the role

The Postdoctoral Research Scientist will join the neuroepigenetics research team, focusing on hormonal and environmental factors driving sex differences in depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders. This position involves characterizing molecular and cellular changes in the human and rodent brain across different reproductive states and across sexes, utilizing advanced epigenomics techniques and bioinformatics data analyses.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes genomics experiments including single-cell multiome ATAC-seq/RNA-seq, and cell-type specific ATAC-seq, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, Hi-C, and Micro-C assays;
• Leads the dry lab team and is involved in data maintenance, data submission, and communication with the sequencing cores and other bioinformatics teams;
• Analyzes and interprets data, performs conference presentations, and prepares manuscripts;
• Attends meetings with lab members and collaborators, and mentors undergraduate and graduate students.

Qualifications

• PhD in biological sciences, computational biology, bioinformatics, or related field;
• Good communication skills;
• Ability to work well independently and with others.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in molecular and computational biology, and neuroscience;
• Experience in the analysis of transcriptomics and epigenomics data.

Pay

$67,000.00 - $70,000.00

Schedule

35 hours per week