October 26, 2016
An exciting opportunity to work with state-of-the-art, big-data research in immunogenetics is currently available with the iReceptor team at Simon Fraser University. This opportunity is available for current or past students of health-science or biomedical research programs. An understanding of immunology is preferred and would be a positive for applicants.
The job entails (i) performing literature searches and reading scientific literature on the sequencing of B-cell/antibody- and T-cell-receptor repertoires, (ii) documenting metadata characterizing the acquisition and processing of samples for each study, and (iii) stating the research goals of each paper. Additionally, the data curator will run annotation tools to process publicly available sequence datasets and curate these in an iReceptor database of immune receptor repertoires. The data curator will be provided assistance in learning what is needed to complete these tasks. S/he will work with senior scientists with expertise in evolutionary genetics and immunology, and with a bioinformatics graduate student.
This is a great opportunity to learn basic bioinformatic skills and to work with state-of-the-art bioinformatics as applied to immunogenetics. This field is rapidly expanding with applications in cancer immunotherapy and treatment of autoimmune and infectious diseases.
Minimal requirements
- Skill in reading and understanding the biomedical literature
- Course work in and a broad knowledge of molecular biology and immunology
- Basic computational proficiency and some experience working with large data sets.
Preferred
- BSc in biology, molecular biology, life sciences or computer science
- Experience with bioinformatics tools
- Experience in working with biological data
- Comfortable working with command-line tools
Send resume and short description of how your experience could contribute to this effort to:
Felix Breden
Department of Biological Sciences
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, Canada V5A 1S6
Email: breden@sfu.ca
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