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Job date: 2017-12-06
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Company : Lucigen Corporation Country : Role : Research Scientist
Job date: 2017-12-06
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Company : Lucigen Corporation Country : Role : Research Scientist
Job Description:
Lucigen seeks a highly knowledgeable, customer-focused, and strongly analytical senior scientist to provide company-wide expertise in the analysis and management of NGS data and in the development of NGS-based methods and applications. Responsibilities and Duties:
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Benefits: Lucigen is an equal opportunity employer with competitive salaries and benefits. For more information about our offerings, please visit our website at: http://www.lucigen.com/Careers.html. [Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]
Lucigen seeks a highly knowledgeable, customer-focused, and strongly analytical senior scientist to provide company-wide expertise in the analysis and management of NGS data and in the development of NGS-based methods and applications. Responsibilities and Duties:
- Process, record, analyze, and extrapolate from experimental data and results, including NGS data sets from various platforms and collaborators
- Generate, optimize and maintain scripts for routine NGS data processing
- Effectively communicate results to the Lucigen team and external customers
- Initiate feasibility experiments designed to expand the Lucigen product portfolio
- Identify and define new product ideas or technologies; conduct feasibility, optimization and verification studies; perform method and product transfer to manufacturing, verification, validation and support of regulatory submissions
- Design and plan product, process, or assay development and qualification activities, specifically for NGS product development and custom NGS projects
- Serve as cross-functional project team lead from feasibility to market launch
- Attend meetings, conferences symposia, and seminars to promote Lucigen capabilities
- Keep abreast of scientific/technological developments by participating in scientific meetings/seminars and through regular scientific review
- Supervise or mentor more junior scientists across a platform
- Provide technical training for scientific and operational staff
- Manage to project or grant budgetary objectives
- Collaborate with product management and R&D leadership in managing the Lucigen product portfolio and in developing program goals and objectives
- Collaborate with operational leaders to evaluate and assess new technology and new product or process capabilities
- Excellent understanding of molecular biology and NGS products
- Thorough understanding of NGS methods, platform-specific capabilities, and data interpretation
- Hands on experience with analyzing and managing large-scale genomic data (e.g. whole genome sequencing, exome-seq, target enrichment, amplicon sequencing, RNA-seq, etc.)
- Hands-on experience with genome alignment, mapping, variant calling and annotation tools
- Familiarity with human and mammalian genomics, standard genomic databases (UCSC, EnsEMBL, NCBI), formats, and tools
- Proficiency in python, ruby, perl, or another high-level scripting language
- Familiarity with UNIX-based operating systems and shell scripting
- Excellent data analysis and visualization skills (Tableau, R, matplotlib, or similar)
- Aptitude to work in a complex and rapidly growing company
- Results-oriented, ensuring targets are met on time and on budget
- Must demonstrate good professional judgment and reliability
- Must be highly accurate and detail-oriented
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products
- Experience working with information technology including database software
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Hands-on experience with DNA sequencing library preparation and sequencing on Illumina sequencer preferred
- Genomic Data Analysis: 1 year
- NGS laboratory: 5 years
Requeriments :
- M.Sc. or higher Degree in Bioinformatics
- M.Sc. or higher Degree in computational biology
- Master’s Degree in Genetics
Skills :
- DNA sequencing
- genomic
- Lunix/Unix
- molecular biology
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Programing in Python
- Programming in R
- RNA-seq
- Shell scripting
Areas :
Additional Info:
Benefits: Lucigen is an equal opportunity employer with competitive salaries and benefits. For more information about our offerings, please visit our website at: http://www.lucigen.com/Careers.html. [Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]