Job Description

The Bioinformatics Platform at the Immunology Translational Research Program NUS,  utilizes state-of-the-art methods in pipelines and workflow to analyze data to gain biological insights. The platform works with a number of medium to high throughput technologies like microbiome metagenomics, single-cell omics, next generation sequencing (RNA-seq, DNA-seq, etc), Luminex multiplex assays, Microarrays, Nanostring and Flow/Mass cytometry and integrates them together with other heterogenous datasets to derived meaningful understandings. The platform is currently looking for a Research Fellow to analyze above mentioned biological data using computational methods.

Job Scope:

• Work with internal and external collaborators to understand biological problems and translate them to actionable computational analytical tasks.
• Execute computational analytical tasks to generate results for interpretation and report generation.
• Communicate and discuss analysis results with collaborators.
• Survey and evaluation of computational methodologies for incorporation into analysis workflows.
• Maintain and manage servers

Qualifications

• PhD in Bioinformatics/Computational biology, Statistics, Mathematics, Data science, Computer Science/Engineering or related disciplines.
• Proficient in the Linux operating system
• Proficient in programming languages such as Unix shell scripts, R, Python and Java
•  Able to work independently and keen to pick up new skills
•  Strong organizational and communication skills.
•  Knowledge or willingness to learn biology and statistics

Covid-19 Message

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Taking into consideration the health and well-being of our staff and students and to better protect everyone in the campus, applicants are strongly encouraged to have themselves fully COVID-19 vaccinated to secure successful employment with NUS.

More Information

Location: Kent Ridge Campus
Organization: Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Department: Dean's Office (Medicine)
Employee Referral Eligible: No
Job requisition ID: 12312