Dear Colleagues,
I am looking for a postdoc research associate to work on mechanistic studies of disease-associated mutational effects on proteins, biomolecular pathways, and phenotypes. I would greatly appreciate your help of directing appropriate candidates my way or forwarding this message.
The ideal candidates would have strong technical background in algorithms, programming, and database / web server and preferably some background in modeling protein structures and protein interactions / modeling biomolecular pathways and networks / analyzing omics data and predicting phenotypes. More details can be found at the end of this email.
Besides postdoc researchers, I am also recruiting Ph.D. students to join my group. Thank you again for your help!
Sincerely,
Yang
Yang Shen
Assistant Professor
Center for Bioinformatics and Genomic Systems Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University
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Postdoc research associates in bioinformatics / computational biology
Postdoctoral research associates in bioinformatics / computational biology are sought in the group of Prof. Yang Shen in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. The topic involves algorithm development and application for mechanistic studies of disease-associated mutational effects on proteins and protein interactions, biomolecular pathways and networks, and phenotypes. Interested candidates please send a cover letter with research interests, curriculum vita, and a list of 3 reference contacts to
yshen@tamu.edu.
Qualifications:
1. Ph.D. in bioinformatics, computational biology, computational chemistry, computational biophysics, computer science, applied mathematics, operations research, engineering, or other related fields;
2. Algorithm development experience in one or more following areas is highly preferred: optimization, machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, causal analysis, systems and control theory, data mining, statistics, or other related methods.
3. Experience and track record in at least one application area is preferred:
(1) Protein modeling. Examples include sequence co-evolution analysis, protein structure prediction, protein-protein or protein-ligand docking, conformational flexibility and search, normal modes, and molecular dynamics; OR
(2) Biomolecular network modeling. Examples include pathway analysis, graph-theoretic algorithms, differential equations, Boolean networks, and Petri nets; OR
(3) Biological data analysis. Examples include data integration and pattern recognition in genomic, proteomic, transcriptomic, phenomic, and other omic data, genotype-phenotype association, and pQTL.
4. Linux programming experience in implementing algorithms (required) and databases & web servers (plus) in one or more following languages: C/C++, Python, shell scripting, Perl, SQL, XML, PHP, JavaScript, and Java.
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