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Job date: 2014-10-02
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Company : University of Maryland Country : Role : Research Scientist
Job date: 2014-10-02
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Company : University of Maryland Country : Role : Research Scientist
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| University of Maryland, College Park. FIRE provides first-year students research experience, broad mentorship and social connectivity that impacts academic success and professional development. During the inaugural 2014/15 academic year FIRE will begin up to 8 innovation and research streams serving between 200 and 250 students.The Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President in collaboration with Dr. Mihai Pop, Dr. Michael Cummings, Dr. Stephen Mount and Dr. Sridhar Hannenhalli of the College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Resources is seeking a Research Associate to serve as the Research Educator for the FIRE Terrapin Genome Project innovation and research stream. The stream Research Educator works in collaboration with the stream-affiliated faculty members to design and implement the group research agenda and is responsible for all curriculum, instruction and broad student mentorship. The Research Educator will coordinate with a team of undergraduate peer mentors to oversee research operations including student research progress, infrastructure maintenance as well as management of the fiscal budget. The position empowers the individual to develop a strong portfolio of experience in curriculum development, instruction, mentorship, leadership and research group management. The Terrapin Genome Project stream will reconstruct and annotate the genome of the diamondback terrapin – the Maryland State reptile and mascot of our University. During this project, students will be involved both in biological activities related to high- throughput DNA and RNA (cDNA) sequencing, and in the bioinformatics analysis of the data being generated. Specifically, the students will contribute to two complementary research objectives: (i) the completion of the assembly of the terrapin genome; and (ii) the improved annotation of genes, gene structures, and gene functions within the assembled genome. The resulting data will be published in public databases (such as those hosted at National Center for Biotechnology Information) as well as in scientific publications. |
| Minimum qualifications:PhD in Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics or related field. Research experience in genomics and bioinformatics with mixed wet-lab and computational expertise. Experience and strong interest in teaching. At a minimum the following skills are required: Laboratory – PCR, DNA extraction Computational – knowledge of Unix, scripting in Perl/Python, expertise running and analyzing the output of BLAST, expertise using genome browsers. |
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