The Multiscale Network Modeling Laboratory (MNML) at Icahn Institute of Genomics and Multiscale Biology, led by Prof. Bin Zhang, is seeking excellent candidates for Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Biology. Candidates must have a PhD in Bioinformatics, Neuroscience, or a closely related field. The successful candidates are expected to apply novel network inference and mining algorithms to analyze large scale genetic, epigenetic, genomic, and clinical data in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's etc. [More]

Originally posted on 2017-02-07

Research problem: Although cytosine methylation (5mC) has been almost exclusively studied as the DNA methylation in human, methylation of other nucleotides exist across all kingdoms of life. Specifically, methylation of adenines (e.g. 6mA) is most prevalent in bacteria, and it also exists in eukaryotes. Recent work by us and others...more... [More]

Originally posted on 2015-09-16