IMMUNOLOGY2024™

May 3–7, 2024 | Chicago, Illinois

Director, Bioinformatics—Immunology Center of Georgia, Hedrick Lab

Augusta University
Augusta, Georgia, USA

About Us

Augusta University is Georgia’s innovation center for education and health care, training the next generation of innovators, leaders, and healthcare providers in classrooms and clinics on four campuses in Augusta and locations across the state. More than 9,000 students choose Augusta for educational opportunities at the center of Georgia’s cybersecurity hub and experiential learning that blends arts and application, humanities, and the health sciences. Augusta is home to Georgia’s only public academic health center, where groundbreaking research is creating a healthier, more prosperous Georgia, and world-class clinicians are bringing the medicine of tomorrow to patient care today.  Our mission and values make Augusta University an institution like no other.   We are part of the University System of Georgia.

College/Department Information

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.

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.

Learn more and apply: https://augusta.edu/jobs?id=253563

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