Job ID: 4476
Job date: 2015-10-05
End Date:
Company : The National Institutes of Health Country : Role : Student
Job date: 2015-10-05
End Date:
Company : The National Institutes of Health Country : Role : Student
Job Description:
The Bioengineering Systems and Technologies Group seeks to improve the performance of human-centered missions through prevention of injury and disease, improving sensing and identification of people and their environment, and speeding rehabilitation and recovery. This is accomplished through four broad technical areas: biomedical research, synthetic biology, bioinformatics and biometrics and forensics. Biomedical research includes advanced sensing, algorithms, modeling, prototyping and field testing of technologies to diagnose disease, predict outcomes, avoid injuries, and monitor and enhance human performance. The synthetic biology research is developing tools and techniques that will greatly speed the design, evaluation and assessment of genome-wide engineering approaches through highly integrated microfluidic devices. Bioinformatics is applied across the group to uncover signatures in high throughput genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic data sets. Biometrics and forensics research is developing technologies and systems for human identification, including rapid DNA analysis, standoff biometric sensing, scientific validation of forensic techniques, and integrated architecture analyses. This highly interdisciplinary group draws on skills from biology, biochemistry, biosignal processing, engineering, computer science, physics, and medical research areas. Primary government sponsors are in the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Justice, as well as the National Institutes of Health
Candidate will assist in developing novel bioinformatics solutions to study gut microbiome toxicology datasets with a team of biologists, engineers, and programmers. Co-op will assist in tasks to:
Generate and evaluate simulated metagenome datasets Setup and execute standard bioinformatics pipelines for comparative analysis of microbes, mobile genetic elements, and gene variation Develop machine learning, data mining, and visualization tools for microbiome research
Requirements:
The candidate must be a student in a B.S. or M.S. program for Computer Science, Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics or an equivalent technical field and must be able to write scripts in Python, Java, Scala, C++, or R for a Unix-based environment. Experience or coursework in both programming and molecular biology (genetics or biochemistry) is desired.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or genetic information; U.S. citizenship is required.
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The Bioengineering Systems and Technologies Group seeks to improve the performance of human-centered missions through prevention of injury and disease, improving sensing and identification of people and their environment, and speeding rehabilitation and recovery. This is accomplished through four broad technical areas: biomedical research, synthetic biology, bioinformatics and biometrics and forensics. Biomedical research includes advanced sensing, algorithms, modeling, prototyping and field testing of technologies to diagnose disease, predict outcomes, avoid injuries, and monitor and enhance human performance. The synthetic biology research is developing tools and techniques that will greatly speed the design, evaluation and assessment of genome-wide engineering approaches through highly integrated microfluidic devices. Bioinformatics is applied across the group to uncover signatures in high throughput genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic data sets. Biometrics and forensics research is developing technologies and systems for human identification, including rapid DNA analysis, standoff biometric sensing, scientific validation of forensic techniques, and integrated architecture analyses. This highly interdisciplinary group draws on skills from biology, biochemistry, biosignal processing, engineering, computer science, physics, and medical research areas. Primary government sponsors are in the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Justice, as well as the National Institutes of Health
Candidate will assist in developing novel bioinformatics solutions to study gut microbiome toxicology datasets with a team of biologists, engineers, and programmers. Co-op will assist in tasks to:
Generate and evaluate simulated metagenome datasets Setup and execute standard bioinformatics pipelines for comparative analysis of microbes, mobile genetic elements, and gene variation Develop machine learning, data mining, and visualization tools for microbiome research
Requirements:
The candidate must be a student in a B.S. or M.S. program for Computer Science, Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics or an equivalent technical field and must be able to write scripts in Python, Java, Scala, C++, or R for a Unix-based environment. Experience or coursework in both programming and molecular biology (genetics or biochemistry) is desired.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or genetic information; U.S. citizenship is required.
Skills :
- Bioinformatics
- Biology
- Genetics
- Lunix/Unix
- Machine Learning
- Modeling
- Programing in C++
- Programing in Python
- Programming in Java
- Programming in R
Areas :
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