Research Assistant Opportunity in Computational Kidney Genomic Research

We’re excited to share this Research Assistant position working under Principal Investigator Ana Onuchic-Whitford at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and affiliated with Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, and the Kidney Disease Initiative of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

The lab studies disease-associated genetic variants using computational approaches with a specific focus on transcriptomics, genetic regulatory mechanisms and glomerular kidney diseases (nephrotic syndrome, proteinuria). We are optimizing a computational pipeline to evaluate allele-specific transcriptomic regulation in kidney disease, by integrating multi-omics data (genomic, transcriptomic, and epigenomic).

The applicant will have a strong understanding of statistical genetics, bioinformatics, and/or genome biology and skills in high-performance computing. They will use both well-established and newer methods for generation and analysis of diverse types of genomic data, including SNP arrays, genome and exome sequencing, and bulk and single cell transcriptomes.