Assistant Bioinformatics Scientist - School of Medicine, Infectious Diseases

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The Emory University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, is seeking a  Bioinformatics Scientist to contribute to microbial genomics projects of high public health importance, in conjunction with the CDC’s Emerging Infections Program.

 

The Bioinformatics Scientist will have a PhD in Bioinformatics, Computer Science or related discipline, and ideally at least three years' experience in microbial genomics analysis. The optimal candidate will have a track record of outstanding written and verbal communication, superior organizational skills, and a history of, or interest in, contributing to open-source software.

 

The position involves maintaining infrastructure such as Linux servers, pathogen-specific databases and shared software resources, performing data analysis for publications and reports and writing manuscripts and software tools. The candidate will develop software pipelines for the CDC-funded Georgia Emerging Infections program at Emory. They will support genomic analysis of isolates from the Emory Investigational Clinical Microbiology Core. They will maintain and enhance viral genome assembly pipelines and contribute to analysis of virus evolution and metagenomics. They will be expected to collaborate on computing and bioinformatics projects with other infectious diseases scientists across the Emory campus.

 

This position benefits from the rich academic environment of the Emory School of Medicine and Emory University. There is ample opportunity for high-impact projects, facilitated by our existing collaborations, close integration with clinical laboratories, and advanced molecular wet laboratories. This is an ideal position for a scientist dedicated to advancing the role of microbial genomics in public health.

 

 

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Under minimal supervision, the Assistant Scientist, Bioinformatics performs a wide range of highly technical and complex bioinformatics procedures.
• Qualification for this position requires demonstrated expertise in designing and developing software, databases, and interfaces for analyzing and manipulating research data applications including expertise with simple programming using Perl/Python or Java, statistical programming, web-development, and database query through SQL.
• This role collaborates with researchers to develop high throughput data processing and analysis capability.
• Directs and guides database searches and the computational analysis of resulting data.
• Provides direct technical support and helps guide, implement, and maintain further improvements to bioinformatics software, databases, and interfaces and works with the entire bioinformatics team to diagnose and fix related issues.
• May assist in grant and other funding applications, as necessary and appropriate.
• Demonstrated ability to function as part of a team.
• Performs other responsibilities as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• PhD in bioinformatics, computer science, biological or physical science and three years of experience.
• Experience prior to achieving the PhD will be considered.

 

NOTE: Position tasks are generally required to be performed in-person at an Emory University location.  Remote work from home day options may be granted at department discretion. Emory reserves the right to change remote work status with notice to employee. 

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