Medical Research Tech III - Bioinformatics Tech

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Medical Research Tech III - Bioinformatics Tech

Employees in this classification provide support in an assigned research laboratory conducting specified phases of research projects and assist the P.I. in maintaining a supportive andcollegial working environment that fosters exchange of ideas and enhances scientific progress. You will perform work independently and are responsible for developing new procedures and techniques tobe utilized in the laboratory and in experiments, and newapplications for standard procedures and techniques.

Work is performed under usual laboratory conditions. Some hazards may bepresent due to use of radioactive, carcinogenic or other potentially harmful substances. Responsibilities also include ensuring overall cleanliness of the laboratory and laboratory equipment, and ordering and maintaining an adequate stock of necessary supplies. May instruct or direct work of subordinate laboratory personnel.

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• Assist the Laboratory Manager and P.I. in managing and promoting laboratory safety.
• Perform bioinformatic analyses of large DNA datasets; for example, RNA-sequence and 3’-end RNA sequence data from wild-typeand mutant mouse samples.
• Use the ‘R’ programming environment to analyze large DNA datasets.
• Collaborate with P.I, students, and other technical personnel in training new students, postdocs and other investigators invarious scientific procedures such as preparation of talks, grantsand publications.
• Maintain a record of experiments in a laboratory notebook,including detailed methodology, calculations, data graphs, imagesof protein blots (“Westerns”), interpretations of data, and indications of errors or unexpected outcomes.
• Supervise lab support activities such as dishwashing, ordering,cleaning, autoclaving solutions and stuffing pipette tip boxes) bystudent assistants and provide these services when student assistants are absent.
• Help maintain essential laboratory equipment (check
  -80 and
  -20freezer temperatures) and records (animal use and breeding colony records, material safety data sheets, biohazardous materials andorder invoices).

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• Bachelor's degree in biology, mathematics, computer science/engineering or data science.
• Experience analyzing large-scale genomic, transcriptomic andepigenomic data, such as RNA-Seq, scRNA-Seq and ChIP-Seq,multivariate statistical analysis, bioinformatics and data visualization.
• Experience with Linux/MacOS command line (file management and automation; system monitoring and troubleshooting);
  
  Experience with R & Python (data wrangling and visualization), cloud/high performance and computing (cluster management, e.g., Slurm and parallel computing);
  
  Experience with data analysis and documentation (e.g., Jupiter notebooks and code annotation);
  
  Version control;
  Pipeline development and testing.
• Experience and/or knowledge with RNA-Seq technologies;familiarity with scientific equipment, working with advanced instrumentation.

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Resume / CV

Full Time

Compensation is commensurate upon the qualifications of the individual selected and budgetary guidelines of the hiring department, as well as the institutional pay plan. For additional information, please reference the institutional pay plan website at https://app
4.ttuhsc.edu/payplan .

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age,disability, genetic information or status as a protected veteran.

Bachelor's degree in one of the sciences, or equivalent combination(4 years) of job-related experience and college education.

Experience may be substituted for college education on a year foryear basis.

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