Research Assistant I

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Job date: 2018-05-08
End Date: 2018-07-07

Company : Loyola University Chicago 

Country : United States 

Role : Research Scientist 


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Job Description:
The research assistant will work with Dr. Wheeler to investigate the degree of transferability of genome-wide and transcriptome-wide association results across populations, which has the potential to improve the implementation of precision medicine among diverse populations. The successful candidate will be involved in omics data analysis, statistical modeling, software development, and writing manuscripts.

Minimum Education and/or Work Experience

Bachelor’s degree in bioinformatics, computer science, statistics, or a related field, and zero-one year of related experience.

Qualifications:

Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree in bioinformatics, computer science, statistics, or a related field. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical, statistical, quantitative, and computational (e.g. R, Python, Linux, Git) skills and should be comfortable with large data sets (e.g. GWAS, RNA-Seq) and working from the command line. High performance computing and cloud computing experience is a plus.

Certificates/Credentials/Licenses:

Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree in bioinformatics, computer science, statistics, or a related field. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical, statistical, quantitative, and computational (e.g. R, Python, Linux, Git) skills and should be comfortable with large data sets (e.g. GWAS, RNA-Seq) and working from the command line. High performance computing and cloud computing experience is a plus.

Computer Skills:

Analytical, statistical, quantitative, and computational (e.g. R, Python, Linux, Git) skills and should be comfortable with large data sets (e.g. GWAS, RNA-Seq) and working from the command line. High performance computing and cloud computing experience is a plus.

Supervisory Responsibilities:No

Required operation of university owned vehicles: No

Does this position require direct animal or patient contact? No

Physical Demands: None

Working Conditions: None

Open Date: 05/04/2018

Special Instructions to Applicants:<

This is a grant funded position. It is anticipated that there is sufficient funding for this position to exist for a one year period of time.


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