Professional Aide

Position Summary(Basic Job Function)

This is a temporary or an on-call position. Provides professional support. Responsibilities may include general business, science, medical, agricultural or other professional support functions. Term: Temps can work two (2) nine (9) month terms with a week break in service in between and at the end of the second term terminate for three (3) months or switch to an on-call. On-Call allowed to work 1039 hours in any twelve (12) month period.

Unit Position Summary

The Diedrich laboratory in the department of Pharmacology and Toxicology is looking for a highly skilled computational biologist with expertise in analysis of multi-omic datasets.  The applicant will be responsible for designing pipelines for experimental data and will help train graduate students to do basic analyses.  Additionally, the applicant will have experience mining publicly available NGS data.   The applicant will be expected to work 30 hours each week and has the ability to work remotely with one day per week expected to be on campus to run training modules for students and meet with the PI. 

Desired Qualifications

Specific skillsets desired include single cell and bulk RNAseq, ATACseq, variant calling, and Cut&Run analysis.  Proficiency in R, python, and Linux is desired. 

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.

Required Application Materials

CV

Work Hours

10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.

Website

https://phmtox.msu.edu/

Remote Work Statement

MSU strives to provide a flexible work environment and this position has been designated as remote-friendly. Remote-friendly means some or all of the duties can be performed remotely as mutually agreed upon.