Postdoctoral Associate
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Location: Houston, TX
- Job Number: 7185819 (Ref #: 17428-en_US)
- Posting Date: Recently posted
- Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Summary
The Zoghbi lab is seeking a postdoctoral research fellow to lead projects at the forefront of neuropsychiatric genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics.The Zoghbi lab is leading several large scale initiatives to understand the genomic basis of schizophrenia, OCD, and neurodevelopmental disorders providing opportunities to conduct large scale common and rare variant GWAS/ExWAS. We are also developing novel machine learning methods to improve risk gene prediction and variant interpretation. This role will focus on the analysis of large-scale human genetics, scRNAseq, and proteomics datasets. There will also be opportunities to develop statistical methods and computational pipelines to streamline and improve the analysis and trainees on clinically impactful projects.
Job Duties
- Performs genomic analyses on large case-control cohorts to identify risk and response associations for diseases of interest.
- Performs integrative analyses of other molecular and omics data, such as gene expression data, metabolomics and/or proteomics.
- Develops robust pipelines for data annotation, analysis, and quality control.
- Creates analytical algorithms and tools to address scientific questions with big data.
- Leads the publishing of results.
- Supports and supervise trainees.
Minimum Qualifications
- MD or Ph.D. in Basic Science, Health Science, or a related field.
- No experience required.
Preferred Qualifications
- PhD in Computational Biology, Genomics, Bioinformatics, or a related field (e.g. statistics, computer science, or quantitative biology).
- Experience in applying or developing computational methods or machine learning.
- Strong programming skills in Python/R.
- Solid foundational knowledge in human genetics and genomics.
- Experience working with next-generation sequencing data.
Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.
Baylor College of Medicine fosters diversity among its students, trainees, faculty and staff as a prerequisite to accomplishing our institutional mission, and setting standards for excellence in training healthcare providers and biomedical scientists, promoting scientific innovation, and providing patient-centered care. - Diversity, respect, and inclusiveness create an environment that is conducive to academic excellence, and strengthens our institution by increasing talent, encouraging creativity, and ensuring a broader perspective. - Diversity helps position Baylor to reduce disparities in health and healthcare access and to better address the needs of the community we serve. - Baylor is committed to recruiting and retaining outstanding students, trainees, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds by providing a welcoming, supportive learning environment for all members of the Baylor community.
