Post Doctoral Researcher

Job ID: 80284
Job date: 2017-08-04
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Company : The Ohio State University 

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Role : Postdoc 


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Job Description:
Interfaces with and maintains the project-specific “IsoGenie Database” and fill key position in a new cutting-edge NASA funded project, leading the addition of new datasets into this interactive repository, in close collaboration with diverse project personnel and collaborators; designs and executes independent research using molecular microbial & viral datasets, from diverse Arctic locations, to characterize emergent community elements in these dynamically changing systems, and stastically link those observations to paired geochemical datasets; maintains current knowledge of appropriate scientific literature; writes research manuscripts and reviews; attends scientific meetings and presents data; participates in fellowship and grant application writing; field site travel and project workshops.

Required Qualifications:

PhD in biological science, computer science, bioinformatics or computational biology; experience in computational biology, microbial informatics, and/or mathematical microbial ecology; experience applying computational methods to analyze large-scale biological data sets.

Desired Qualifications:

Excellent programming skills in python; knowledge in database management of structure and unstructured data; experience in web development using JavaScript/jQuery, CSS, front-end JS frameworks and HTML5; comfortable working with graph databases (Neo4j) and REST APIs; experience in construction of graph queries to analyze large-scale datasets; comfortable working with Git; self-motivated and able to work in a team with minimal supervision; working with interdisciplinary teams to understand dataset requirements.


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Additional Info:
Pre Employment Screening: Requires the successful completion of a background check

Target Salary: $47,500.00 - $49,000.00 Annually

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