Bioinformatics Analyst I - Microbial Bioinformatics

The KLemon Lab at Baylor College of Medicine is hiring a bioinformatics analyst l. Our long-term goal is to identify bacterial strains and compounds that will be leads for new approaches to prevent and treat infections due to nasal bacterial pathobionts and respiratory viruses. To achieve this, we are elucidating the molecular mechanisms of interspecies interactions in the human nasal microbiome. The bioinformatics analyst I will perform bioinformatic analysis on human nasal microbiota data and human nasal organoids. A complete application includes a CV, examples of your work on GitHub, the names and email addresses for three references and a cover letter.

Work closely with the Bioinformatics Manager to:

• Research, assess, and test third-party bioinformatic workflows and software.
• Establish, test, and improve bioinformatic workflows.
• Establish a custom database to storage and process data generated from Human Nasal Organoid wet-lab experiments.
• Use computational analyses and biological interpretation of results to review existing data and propose improvements.
• Ensure proper documentation, accuracy and storage of all data generated using bioinformatic tools. Assist microbiologists in lab to learn documentation skills and to perform basic bioinformatic analyses using workflows.
• Maintain computational resources in the lab, which includes taking the lead on troubleshooting any hardware, software, or platform issues and interfacing with BCM IT and outside software/hardware vendors.
• Take the lead both on producing data that generates new hypotheses and on testing hypotheses using bioinformatic analyses with a focus on bacterial phylogenomics, pangenomics, and metapangenomics to generate data for publication. Then, as needed, assist with key experiments to test hypotheses generated.
• Write publication quality methods and results for both main and supplemental figures and tables that result from bioinformatic data analysis. This includes appropriate citations, which requires reading both the bioinformatic and microbiological literature related to the project. Prepare publication-quality final figures of bioinformatic data, along with figure legends.
• Participate in weekly lab meetings, subgroup meetings, and meetings with PI.
   

• Bachelor's degree in Genetics, Biology, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• No experience required. 

• Master’s degree in a field listed above or a related field.
• Three years of research experience using bioinformatics for microbiome or bacterial or bacterial-host research can substitute for preferred education experience. 

Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.

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