About this role
Position Objective: The Bioinformatics Scientist will provide support services to satisfy the overall operational objectives of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) within the National Institutes of Health.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with staff on a multi-disciplinary study of human immune aging 2
- Perform computational analyses and modeling of large biological data sets including Next Generation Sequencing NGS 1
- Generate and analyze high-throughput data, including data from bulk and single cellRNA-seq, ATAC-seq, DNA methylation, proteomic flow cytometry and CyTOFphenotyping 3
- Collaborate with staff to establish innovative software and computational tools to enable the Center for Immune Aging to perform complex computational data analyses
- Train and mentor staff in the use of software and computational tools
- Collaborate with experimentalists and computational biologists to develop new computational tools to answer research questions of interest that pertain to inflammation and immune dysfunction that occurs with human aging
- Collect, analyze and interpret data; prepare reports and summaries based on results and findings
- Attend laboratory meetings; present data for staff discussion
- Work products and documents related to collecting, analyzing and interpreting data; prepare reports and summaries based on results and findings; attend laboratory meetings; present data for staff discussion.
- Work products and documents related to training and mentoring staff in the use of software and computational tools; develop new computational tools to answer research questions of interest that pertain to inflammation and immune dysfunction that occurs with human aging.
- Work products and documents related to generating and analyzing high-throughput data; establish innovative software and computational tools to enable the Center for Immune Aging to perform complex computational data analyses.
- Work products and documents related to training and mentoring
- Work products and documents related to collaborating with staff on a multi-disciplinary study of human immune aging; perform computational analyses and modeling of large biological data sets including Next Generation Sequencing (NGS).
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Masters degree in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, and Biophysics
- Skilled in MS Office Suite
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with non-technical and technical staff
- Detail-oriented and possess strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize multiple tasks and projects
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