Structural Biologist

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Job date: 2017-01-24
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Company : Ambry Genetics 

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Role : Technician 


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Job Description:
The job’s main responsibility is to collaborate with biologists, bioinformaticians, and clinicians to design and perform structural analyses.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES :

-Provide structural biology support to variant analyses by analyzing and interpreting structural-function relationship.

-Expand our current in house-structural database.

-Develop new methods and protocols for structural modeling and dynamics.

-Work with statisticians in validation of new methods, including data collection and analysis algorithms.

-Develop features/tools assisting clinical and genetic analysis on in house analysis platform.

-Support bioinformatics, R&D and reporting team for clinical research projects.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS :

-PhD degree in computational biology, structural biology, biophysics, bioinformatics.

-Familiar with molecular biology, biological pathways, and genomics.

-Strong knowledge of current theories and principals of computational structural biology.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES :

-Proficiency in the use of bioinformatics software, packages, and databases.

-Proficiency with Perl, Python, R, bash, C/C++, java, and SQL in Linux/Unix environment.

-Proficiency in utilizing and development bio-molecular modeling and dynamics tools.

-Excellent oral and written communication skills.

-Ability to work within a team, among cross-departments, and as an independent contributor, requiring minimal supervision.

EXPERIENCE :

-Recent, or soon to graduate, PhD students in related fields are encouraged to apply.

-3 years experience in research and development experiments in the related fields.

-2 years post-doctoral research experience and/or industrial experiences in computational biology are required.

-Experiences in using high performance computing and storage systems.


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