The Biotechnology Center at Khalifa University is seeking a candidate for Research Associate appointment in discipline relevant to Bioinformatics. In the role of ” Bioinformatician”, the successful candidate will provide high uality research support to assist in the management of an internationally competitive research portfolio in field of biotechnology and biomedical science. 

Role of Research Associate Bioinformatics

Publish research outcomes in high quality peer-reviewed technical journals, thereby contributing to research mission of the university. The responsibilities of Research Associate members shall be an appropriate combination of research, scholarly or other creative activities, research services and operational activities.

Responsibilities of Research Associate Bioinformatics

• Quality Control.
• Sequence assembly – putting the pieces together in the right order.
• Database design & maintenance – maintaining databanks of gene sequences, constantly updating (companies often maintain their own private databases).
• Sequence (gene) analysis – understanding the function of a gene, what bits do, what may be done by comparing against known genes.
• Proteomics – studies the portion of the genome expressed in particular cells using cutting edge technology. Bioinformatics specialists work closely with bench scientists to do this “data-mining”.
• Transcriptomics – single cell RNA sequencing and Bulk RNA sequencing.
• Pharmacogenomics – how single point mutations or alterations in the genome at specific positions can be associated with particular disease states and with reduced/increased sensitivity to particular drugs.
• Leverage computational biology and machine learning expertise to develop novel bioinformatics solutions and push state of the art.
• Present and communicate your findings in cross-functional teams.
• Provide feedback and suggest research directions based on analyses performed.
• Utilize data visualization tools and develop reports for superiors and partners.

Requirements

• Able to perform basic QA/QC analysis and utilize commercial software packages to perform SNP calling, genome assembly, limited phylogenetic analysis and whole genome analysis.
• May be able to work at the command line level to perform some bioinformatics analysis or build pipeline with limited capabilities.
• Able to develop, test and implement custom bioinformatics pipelines.
• Capable of analyzing a wide range of data from different sources.
• Excellent knowledge of at least one scripting language and UX.
• Able to work with statistical packages such as R.
• Can provide some guidance to the clinical labs on requirements needed (such as type of sequencing or number of reads needed) to perform the bioinformatics analysis.

Education & Experience

• Master’s in Bioinformatics.
• 2-3 years of experience in research.

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