Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of North Carolina, United States

Updated: over 1 year ago
Location: Chapel Hill, NORTH CAROLINA
Job Type: FullTime
Deadline: 07 Dec 2022

Posting Information
Posting Details


Department Gastroint Biology and Dis Ctr - 429001
Posting Open Date 12/02/2022
Application Deadline 12/07/2022
Open Until Filled No
Position Type Postdoctoral Scholar
Position Title Postdoctoral Research Associate
Vacancy ID PDS003683
Full-time/Part-time Full-Time Temporary
Hours per week 40
FTE 1
Work Location Chapel Hill, NC
Position Location North Carolina, US
Hiring Range Dependent on Qualifications
Proposed Start Date 01/03/2023
Estimated Duration of Appointment 12 Months

Position Information


Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit
The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service. 
OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the nation’s leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.
Education: We will prepare tomorrow’s health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.
Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.
Position Summary
The Magness lab is looking for an exceptional Postdoctoral Research Associate to focus on designing high resolution experimental and computational pipelines for developing models of primary human gastrointestinal tissues in health and disease. This postdoc will define and develop novel algorithms and procedures for assessing functional, transcriptomic, and phenotypic heterogeneity of gastrointestinal tissues through high-throughput sequencing data, high resolution confocal microscopy, and functional readouts.
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements
PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Computational Biology, or a related discipline
Required Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience
Strong technical and methodological background in molecular biology and primary human cell culture
Independent, highly motivated, and highly collaborative with the ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team that bridges experimental and computational biology
Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience
Demonstrated ability to design, implement, and apply modern statistical and computational methods for the analysis of next generation sequencing data (scRNAseq, RNAseq, etc.) 
Expertise in high resolution confocal imaging and computational image analyses
Expertise is gastrointestinal biology and disease
Specific expertise in single cell transcriptomics analysis
Expertise in implementing statistical and computational methods in data intensive programming environments
Able to perform at a high level in a rapidly-changing and demanding work environment
Able to multitask at the bench and computation
Demonstrated ability to effectively present and communicate about complex bioinformatics problems to colleagues.
Stem cells or cancer initiation and progress background
Ability to perform tissue culture and organoid expertise
Special Physical/Mental Requirements
Special Instructions
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Posting Contact Information


Department Contact Name and Title Josh Herman - HR Consultant
Department Contact Telephone or Email [email protected]
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