The Pennathur Lab in the Internal Medicine Department/Division of Nephrology is seeking a Research Lab Specialist to contribute to an NIH-funded Centers and associated faculty. Performing bioinformatics data analysis for Nutrition and Obesity Center and O'Brien Kidney Center.
- Candidate will perform computational analysis of metabolomics and lipidomics data and enable integration with other -omics data sets.
- Expertise with lipidomics data is particularly required.
- Skills for analysis of lipidomics software including Lipid explorer, data parsing, imputation, statistical analysis and data visualization tools are essential.
- The candidate should document proficiency as evidenced by publications in this area.
- Domain knowledge in renal disease and disorders related to nutrition and obesity is required.
- Training students and postdoctoral fellows who are new to metabolomics data integration.
- Has oversight for day-to-day operation of laboratory.
- Schedules and maintains records of equipment/facility.
- May supervise research support personnel.
- May assemble, test calibrate, clean or make minor repairs to equipment.
- Bachelors degree
- 1-3 years of experience
- Candidate should be able to work with minimal supervision on data analysis, communicating with the metabolomics core personnel and with investigators and cater to their specific data needs
- Masters in Biology, Biochemistry, or closely related field preferred.
- 4-5 years of related experience preferred.
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