Director, Bioinformatics
Immunology Center of Georgia at Augusta University
Augusta, Georgia, USA
Immunology Center of Georgia
The Immunology Center of Georgia (IMMCG) represents a new initiative by the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University to leverage the ability of the immune system to combat disease. The IMMCG will accomplish this by assembling teams of biomedical researchers with strong records of scientific innovation and technological development. The IMMCG will be co-directed by world-class immunologists Drs. Catherine ‘Lynn’ Hedrick and Klaus Ley, both of whom have made major discoveries linking immune cells to specific mechanisms of disease. The goal of the IMMCG is to produce novel and effective treatments for conditions that heavily impact the communities of Georgia and the United States. The new center is aggressively recruiting faculty and staff to lead projects focused on cardiovascular disease, obesity and metabolic disorders, autoimmune and infectious disease, neurodegenerative disease and cancer.
Job Summary
Candidate will assist in management of a team of bioinformatic scientists. Duties include supervision of bioinformatics staff scientists in analysis of mass cytometry and single cell techniques, analysis of high dimensional immunology datasets using complex algorithms, and implementation of new bioinformatics projects related to immunology through use of new algorithms and machine learning. Candidate may also train staff scientists and bioinformatics students for bioinformatics.
Medical College of Georgia
The Medical College of Georgia is one of the nation’s largest medical schools by class size, with 260 students per class. The educational experience is anchored by the main campus in Augusta, regional clinical campuses for third- and fourth-year students across the state and a second four-year campus in Athens in partnership with the University of Georgia. MCG’s expanding partnerships with physicians and hospitals across Georgia currently provides about 350 sites where students can experience the full spectrum of medicine, from complex care hospitals to small-town solo practices. MCG and its teaching hospitals also provide postgraduate education to more than 500 residents and fellows in 50 different Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-approved programs. Our researchers and clinicians focus on what most impacts the health of Georgia’s and America’s children and adults, including cardiovascular biology and disease, cancer, neurosciences and behavioral sciences, public and preventive health, regenerative and reparative medicine, personalized medicine and genomics. Our physician faculty also share their expertise with physicians and patients at about 100 clinics and hospitals statewide.
Responsibilities
The duties include, but are not limited to:
Management: Manage staff of bioinformaticians and computational biologists. Duties include assigning tasks, and meeting with staff to ensure productivity.
Training: Opportunities to teach or train staff, graduate students and other trainees in bioinformatics. Present data and manuscripts during in-house seminars.
Analysis: Complete complex computational analysis of high dimensional immunology datasets. Work with investigators to assist in proper experimental design, and assist in their understanding of the data. Assist in providing graphs and publication-quality figures to aid in data presentation. Establish and recommend workflows for bulk RNA-seq, CITE-Seq, scRNA-seq, ATAC-Seq, cell-cell communications, pseudotime, trajectory, RNA Velocity and other related ‘omics’ applications. Perform Al machine learning applications.
Publications: Write publications, news releases, grant applications, workflows as needed related to bioinformatics.
Other: Perform other related duties as assigned.
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