Positions Available (3):
Postdoctoral Associate - Experimental Cell Biology
Dr. Balch’s genomics-oriented cell biology laboratory has openings for individuals with interest in understanding and treating mono and polygenic disease driven by genetic diversity in the population. Looking for candidates that have strength in experimental technologies to explore application of precision medicine to the management of genetic disease.
Key Responsibilities and Qualifications:
A Ph.D. in cell biology/biochemistry.
Contribute to development and application of novel assays to assess impact of genetic diversity for different gene targets.
Skill sets of interest include strong experience in culture of human heterologous and primary cell lines including hiPSCs, familiarity with biochemical and tools (SDS-PAGE, ELISA, etc.) and knowledge and technical skills required for high-throughput/high content (imaging) screening (HTS/HCS) analyses.
Ability to work in a heterogeneous environment of biologists, bioinformaticians, and computer scientists.
Research Assistant - Experimental Cell Biology (Apply)
Dr. Balch’s genomics-oriented cell biology laboratory has openings for individuals with interest in understanding and treating mono and polygenic disease driven by genetic diversity in the population. Looking for candidates that have strength in experimental technologies to explore application of precision medicine to the management of genetic disease.
Key Responsibilities and Qualifications:
An M.Sc. in cell biology/biochemistry.
Management of human tissue culture (heterologous, primary, iPSCs) for biological assays.
Application of novel HTS/HCS assays to assess impact of genetic diversity for different gene targets, including associated computational skills to analyze datasets
Genotype to phenotype analyses using biochemical tools (SDS-PAGE and ELISA based technologies.
Skill sets include culture of human heterologous and primary cell lines, including hiPSCs, familiarity with biochemical and technical tools required for mammalian cell-based HTS/HCS analyses and biochemical/computational approaches for analyses of complex datasets.
Ability to work in a heterogeneous environment of biologists, bioinformaticians, and computer scientists.
Contact Dr. William Balch for information at webalch@scripps.edu
Postdoctoral Associate -Computational Cell Systems
Dr. Balch’s genomics-oriented cell biology laboratory has openings for individuals with interest in understanding and treating mono and polygenic disease driven by genetic diversity in the population. Looking for candidates that have strength in computational technologies to explore application of precision medicine to the management of genetic disease.
Key Responsibilities and Qualifications:
A Ph.D. in Systems Biology with interest in computational approaches for analysis of large datasets to explore basic mechanism and therapeutics.
Develop and implement statistical methods for data integration. Contribute to genotype to phenotype analyses using machine learning approaches.
Process and analyze in-house and public domain data from various independent platforms (proteomics, genomics, phenomics).
Skill sets include machine learning computational approaches for analyses of complex datasets (e.g., Bayesian-Gaussian statistics, generative modeling, adversarial networks, natural language processing, etc.). Knowledge of Python or R. Experience in database development, maintaining & sharing code repositories (GitHub, Jupyter, etc.).
Ability to work in a heterogeneous environment of biologists, bioinformaticians, and computer scientists.