Job ID: 603245
Job date: 2017-01-18
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Company : University of Alberta Country : Role : Postdoc
Job date: 2017-01-18
End Date:
Company : University of Alberta Country : Role : Postdoc
Job Description:
Dr. Gane Ka-Shu Wong’s laboratory is seeking a post-doctoral associate willing to operate at the cutting edge of technology development in the service of biomedical research. Candidates must be comfortable with both wet and dry lab procedures, i.e. generation of omics-scale data and the associated bioinformatics. We are seeking an imaginative young scientist to beta-test this new technology in various projects, including but not limited to virus discovery, allograft rejection, and cancer diagnostics. He/she will be responsible for the entire process from the design of the experiment, to the acquisition and analysis of the data, to the publication of the results. The required skills include NGS sequencing, bioinformatics, genetics, immunology and virology. Candidates must show the interpersonal skills to interface with engineers on the technology development and medical collaborators on the sample acquisition. We do not focus on any particular disease and our allies include PI’s in the Departments of Medicine, Oncology, and Pathology, as well as the Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology. Duties and responsibilities: • Determines most appropriate methodologies for identified research goals; plans research activities and provides research designs. • Designs experiments, biosample collection protocols and standards; performs advanced computational analysis of research results. • Designs, operates and maintains bioinformatic pipelines, databases and documentation. • Participates in the scientific writing of research papers. • Organizes day-to-day aspects of lab operations including the maintenance of equipment, reagent inventories, standard protocols and biological stocks. • Participates as team member for the drafting of ethics submissions and grant applications. • Presentations at national and international conferences. • Meetings with stakeholders ranging from technology developers to health care professionals. • Watch over activities of technicians and grad students Qualifications: • PhD or equivalent in Bioinformatics, Genetics, Immunology or Virology, or related field. • Experience in generation of next-generation sequencing datasets. • Experience in bioinformatics for accessing and analyzing large datasets. • Experience in research with clinical or patient-focused outcomes. • Experience with knowledge translation and/or implementation science. • Skilled in interpretation and presentation of quantitative datasets. • Skilled in collaboration, negotiation, and problem solving within multi-disciplinary teams.
Additional Info:
Our lab’s history dates back to the Human Genome Project, including the launch of an internationally renowned sequencing organization and leadership of complex interdisciplinary consortiums. Recently, in a collaboration with Dr. Carlo Montemagno of Ingenuity Lab in the Faculty of Engineering, we developed a novel proprietary technology (InBeads) to capture extremely low abundant targets from clinical samples. This technology has a better limit-of-detection than qPCR and is at least 1000-fold better than commercial kits on the market. This full-time position is available for a period of 12 months, with the possibility of renewal. Salary will be commensurate with experience and skills. Benefits information for this position can be found at the following link: http://www.postdoc.ualberta.ca/healthcoverage.aspx.[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]
Dr. Gane Ka-Shu Wong’s laboratory is seeking a post-doctoral associate willing to operate at the cutting edge of technology development in the service of biomedical research. Candidates must be comfortable with both wet and dry lab procedures, i.e. generation of omics-scale data and the associated bioinformatics. We are seeking an imaginative young scientist to beta-test this new technology in various projects, including but not limited to virus discovery, allograft rejection, and cancer diagnostics. He/she will be responsible for the entire process from the design of the experiment, to the acquisition and analysis of the data, to the publication of the results. The required skills include NGS sequencing, bioinformatics, genetics, immunology and virology. Candidates must show the interpersonal skills to interface with engineers on the technology development and medical collaborators on the sample acquisition. We do not focus on any particular disease and our allies include PI’s in the Departments of Medicine, Oncology, and Pathology, as well as the Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology. Duties and responsibilities: • Determines most appropriate methodologies for identified research goals; plans research activities and provides research designs. • Designs experiments, biosample collection protocols and standards; performs advanced computational analysis of research results. • Designs, operates and maintains bioinformatic pipelines, databases and documentation. • Participates in the scientific writing of research papers. • Organizes day-to-day aspects of lab operations including the maintenance of equipment, reagent inventories, standard protocols and biological stocks. • Participates as team member for the drafting of ethics submissions and grant applications. • Presentations at national and international conferences. • Meetings with stakeholders ranging from technology developers to health care professionals. • Watch over activities of technicians and grad students Qualifications: • PhD or equivalent in Bioinformatics, Genetics, Immunology or Virology, or related field. • Experience in generation of next-generation sequencing datasets. • Experience in bioinformatics for accessing and analyzing large datasets. • Experience in research with clinical or patient-focused outcomes. • Experience with knowledge translation and/or implementation science. • Skilled in interpretation and presentation of quantitative datasets. • Skilled in collaboration, negotiation, and problem solving within multi-disciplinary teams.
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Our lab’s history dates back to the Human Genome Project, including the launch of an internationally renowned sequencing organization and leadership of complex interdisciplinary consortiums. Recently, in a collaboration with Dr. Carlo Montemagno of Ingenuity Lab in the Faculty of Engineering, we developed a novel proprietary technology (InBeads) to capture extremely low abundant targets from clinical samples. This technology has a better limit-of-detection than qPCR and is at least 1000-fold better than commercial kits on the market. This full-time position is available for a period of 12 months, with the possibility of renewal. Salary will be commensurate with experience and skills. Benefits information for this position can be found at the following link: http://www.postdoc.ualberta.ca/healthcoverage.aspx.[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]