Your Role & Our Team
The Bioinformatics / Biostatistics Unit collaborates with the IRB Barcelona's community in the design and analysis of their experiments, either in vivo, in vitro or in silico. The unit is committed to providing a competitive advantage by developing tailored solutions and conducting methodological research. To do so, we engage in bioinformatics and statistical consulting from experimental design to publication, resulting in close collaborations with experimentalists in every stage of the way. We have an outstanding record of publications in high impact journals and offer a unique environment for practicing the most exciting science.
IRB Barcelona is seeking a dedicated Senior Research Officer to support our Biostatistics/Bioinformatics Core Facility. The successful candidate will participate in data analysis and methodology development for very diverse data types and research projects. The Officer will help supervise junior members of the Unit, visiting students and will offer consultation for researchers at IRB Barcelona. Moreover, she/he will actively participate in the generation of material and teaching of statistics courses and will help set up and apply best practices for data management and reproducible science.
Key responsibilities Provide support in biological data analysis: process and analyze data from diverse platforms such as next generation sequencing, clinical databases, proteomics, single cell data, etc.Develop tailored solutions and cutting-edge methodology for the analysis of data in collaboration with experimental researchersProvide access, manage information and analyze data from public databases such as dbSNP, 1000 genomes, GWAS, GEO, TCGAProvide statistical consulting to the IRB's communityImplement and develop methodologies for analyzing single cell RNAseq dataDesign material for statistics coursesSupervise junior members and visiting students You have Experience: Programming experience in R for applied statistical analysesExperience in analyzing scRNAseq dataMinimum of three years working with biomedical dataPublication record in the fields of statistics or biostatistics Qualifications: PhD in Statistics, bioinformatics, computational biology or related fields Languages: Excellent use of written and spoken EnglishSpanish and Catalan in professional setting Technical Skills: Professional programming in RAbility to apply statistical concepts to biological settings Competences: Good communication skills and ability to learn new biological conceptsAbility to work on multiple projects simultaneouslyExcellent interpersonal and communication skillsHighly motivated and collaborative personWilling to keep on learningAbility to work independently in a demanding research environment You might also have Experience in analyzing spatial dataExperience in managing data according to best practices in the fieldUse of AI as an aid for programming, literature mining or analyzing genomic data
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