Postdoctoral Researcher – Kumamoto University, Japan-Kyushu-Kumamoto

Job ID: 3275
Job date: 2015-04-27
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Job Description:
Postdoctoral ResearcherKumamoto UniversityInternational Research Center for Medical SciencesJapan-Kyushu-Kumamoto International Research Center for Medical Sciences (IRCMS; http://ircms.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/) at Kumamoto University (Japan) is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher in bioinformatics/biomedical informatics to support and advance multidisciplinary programs in immunology, retrovirology, stem cell, cancer biology and ageing research.

Key areas will be applying state of the art statistical and computational methodologies to biological problems and analysing ‘big data’.

Responsibilities/duties:
- Develop methods and frameworks to analyse new data generated IRCMS scientists. Key areas are analyses of ‘big data’ including Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), microarray data and CYTOF data analysis.
- Adapt/apply existing and/or develop new data analysis, visualisation and computational protocols and pipelines.
- Write research articles and publish/present results.

The position remains open until filled. The starting date within 2015 is negotiable.

- Successful candidates should have a PhD in the field of biomedical informatics, bioinformatics, computational biology, systems biology or a related field.
- Demonstrable skills in high-dimensional and longitudinal data analysis, data modelling, statistics, data integration and visualization.
- Programming skills (Perl, Python) and experience in R/Bioconductor and other analysis packages.
- Visualization and presentation of complex data sets.
- Good communication skills to collaborate and explain computational/statistical concepts to biomedical scientists.

Job Information
Position Type: Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Start Date: August 01, 2015
Duration: Full Time
Status: open

Contact Information
Kumamoto University International Research Center for Medical Sciences
Christian Schonbach
chris@iscb.orghttp://ircms.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/

How To Apply:Interested applicants are encouraged to submit a CV with cover letter and statements of research achievements and plans by May 29, 2015 to Christian Schonbach (chris@iscb.org) and CC to Masafumi Takiguchi (masafumi@kumamoto-u.ac.jp).


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