What are the responsibilities and job description for the Post Doc Research Assistant position at Purdue University?
Req Id : 34930
Job Title : Post Doc Research Assistant
City : West Lafayette
Job Description : Job Summary
Department of Statistics, Biological Sciences, Purdue University
Institution Information
Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university is committed to Equal Opportunity, Equal Access, and Affirmative Action. For more details, visit https : / / www.purdue.edu / .
Duties and Responsibilities
Drs. Geyu Zhou and Boran Gao are jointly hiring a full-time postdoctoral fellow in statistical genetics (with immediate start availability). The postdoctoral fellow will have the opportunity to work on methodological as well as collaborative research projects for genetics and genomic data, with a focus on multi-ancestry analysis. Broad research projects include but are not limited to : 1) developing and applicating statistical methods for multi-ancestry polygenic risk score and fine-mapping 2) analyzing large-scale dataset such as UK biobank and All of US The fellow is expected to write peer-reviewed manuscripts as first author; and will be encouraged for publication, and conference travel.
This is a 2-year training position jointly appointed between the Department of Statistics and the Department of Biological Sciences with possible extension subject to satisfactory performance and funding availability. The fellow will get opportunities to regularly interact and collaborate with other team members within the Department of Statistics, Department of Biological Sciences, and Department of Sociology through campus wide social-genomics initiative.
More information about Dr. Zhou and Dr. Gao research in statistical genetics can be found Zhou Lab and Gao Lab.
