Research assistent - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

The Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology at Uppsala University has a broad research profile with strong research groups focused on cancer, autoimmune and genetic diseases. A fundamental idea at the department is to stimulate translational research and thereby closer interactions between medical research and health care. Research is presently conducted in the following areas: cancer precision medicine, cancer immunotherapy, genomics and neurobiology, molecular tools and functional genomics, neuro-oncology and neurodegeneration and vascular biology. Department activities are also integrated with the units for Oncology, Clinical Genetics, Clinical Immunology, Clinical Pathology, and Hospital Physics at Akademiska sjukhuset, Uppsala. The department has teaching assignments in several education programmes, including Master Programmes, at the Faculty of Medicine, and at the Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology. The department has a yearly turnover of around SEK 500 million, out of which more than half is made up of external funding. The staff amounts to approximately 345 employees, out of which 100 are PhD-students, and there are in total more than 700 affiliated people. Feel free to read more about the department's activities here: www.igp.uu.se

Duties
Candidate should have strong background and interested in data mining and mathematics, particularly for single cell RNA-seq and spatial transcriptomic data. Wish to learn new knowledge and has good communication skills. At least, master degree in bioinformatics and relevant filed is needed.

Requirements
Background in bioinformatics. Have good knowledge in Python, R, Bash, Java, bioinformatics tools and machine learning and have experience of analysing and interpreting biological data, scRNA-seq data as well as spatial transcriptomic data.

About the employment
The employment is a temporary position, 5 months. Scope of employment 100 %. Starting date as agreed. Placement: Uppsala

For further information about the position, please contact: Xingqi Chen, xingqi.chen@igp.uu.se

Please submit your application by 5th january 2024, UFV-PA 2023/4899.

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