Postdoctoral Fellowship, Molecular Genetics and Genomics Division (Biotech)
New England Biolabs (NEB) is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Pradhan lab. The project for this role is focused on the studies of the relationship between chromatin packaging and transcriptional regulation during development and disease in mammalian cells using single cell technologies.
Primary Responsibilities:
To conceptualize and conduct experiments in support of research projects, ensuring consistency with established methodological approaches, adherence to project timelines.
Understanding of related literature and research to support the design and implementation of experiments and development of reports that could be presented in informal or formal setting, including departmental and research seminars.
Write and publish articles in quality peer-reviewed (preferably open access) journals ensuring consistency with the highest standards of academic publication and showcasing NEB's scientific leadership.
Participate and manage collaborative research within NEB and with external laboratories by exchanging ideas and implementing collaborative experiments.
Required Qualification and Experience:
A recent PhD in Molecular biology, Biochemistry, Genomics with high level of understanding of Bioinformatics is a key requirement.
Must demonstrate proficiency in uses of single cell or low cell number in experimental and/or clinical samples.
Should be familiar with open-source DNA-seq, Bisulfite-seq, ChIP-seq and RNA-seq analysis pipelines and public databases (TCGA, UCSC genome, Ensembl and etc.), operational knowledge in coding or scripting languages (Java/Python/Perl/R) and be comfortable with working in a HPC environment.
Preferred Qualification and Experience:
Knowledge of basic statistics is a plus.
Experience in mammalian cell culture, NGS library preparation for DNA and RNA (analysis) is preferred.
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