The Duhaime Lab (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~duhaimem) at the University of Michigan in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is seeking a full-time bioinformatician. The lab works with large-scale viral and microbial omics datasets to study interactions of microbes and their viruses across organizational scales and their roles in ecosystem function. Also, we have a lot of fun. The primary tasks of the bioinformatician will include data analysis, such as metagenomic assembly, binning, annotation, mapping and comparisons of metatranscriptomes; development and maintenance of bioinformatics pipelines; development and maintenance of databases for microbiome/virome omics data. Responsibilities will also include the training of postdoctoral researchers, staff, graduate and undergraduate students in high- performance computing, programming, and bioinformatics applications. Qualified candidates will hold a bachelor’s degree in bioinformatics, data science, computer science, biology, or a related field with a required 2-3 years of computer/research experience. Experience with Linux command line, scripting languages (Perl, Python, R and Bash), graph databases (Neo4j) or traditional relational databases (SQL), web development languages and proper bioinformatic/software documentation is needed. Applicant evaluation will include code/code documentation review. A master’s degree with 2-4 years of computer/research experience highly preferred. Please contact Melissa Duhaime [email protected] for inquiries. If interested in the position, please include a CV.
