台美生技協會 Taiwanese American Association of Biotechnology (TAAB) P.O. Box 7864, Princeton, NJ 08543
Dear TAAB Friends,
Hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend! TAAB would like to share below job openings from Dr. Li-San Wang at University of Pennsylvania for your consideration.
If anyone has any questions, please email Dr. Li-San Wang ([email protected]) directly.
Best regards, Mark Kao President of TAAB
PNGC. Penn Neurodegeneration Genomics Center (PNGC) at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine studies genetics of Alzheimer’s Disease and other related dementia. Our researchers apply high throughput genotyping and sequencing technologies to analyze tens of thousands of genomes and find novel genes. New experimental approaches, algorithms, and databases are developed in order to translate these findings into biological knowledge about the disease and new directions for drug discovery and preventive strategies.
We are a key site for the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP), a National Institute on Aging genetics initiative to understand the genetic architecture of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (AD/ADRD). This project will generate whole genome sequences of a large number of study participants from ethnically diverse populations in order to capture and analyze common and rare genetic variation.
Our latest project is the Asian Cohort for Alzheimer’s Disease (ACAD) study. where we will recruit and study up to 5,000
participants of Asian ancestry in the US and Canada. PNGC is the coordinating center for the study. More information about our center and projects can be found at the websites below.
PNGC: https://www.penn-ngc.org/ ADSP: www.niagads.org/adsp ACAD: www.acadstudy.org
Staff Openings. We have openings for various staff roles. Interested applicants can visit Careers at Penn (https://www.hr.upenn.edu/PennHR/careers-at-penn) or the links below for more details.
Data Analyst C (junior bioinformatician)
Research Coordinator Senior (ACAD project)
Postdoctoral Researchers. We are also seeking applications for postdoctoral researchers interested in the development and applications of algorithms, statistical models, and big genomic data mining and machine learning methods in human genetics and genomics, with focus on Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.
Example projects include: · Analysis of GWAS and genome resequencing to find novel genetic variants associated with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia; · Translating genetic associations to affected regulatory genomic elements, targeted genes, and downstream pathways and networks; · Harmonization and mining of deep phenotypes with genetic data for gene-environment associations, health economic analysis, and disease risk modeling; · Developing novel methods, resources, and databases for big genomic data analysis using data mining, and artificial intelligence on cloud computing environments; · Developing algorithms and workflows for structural variant calling and analysis from GWAS and sequencing data.
Qualifications: Ph.D. or equivalent degree in computer science, statistics, genetic epidemiology, biology, computational biology, or other related fields required. Experience in handling genomic and human genetics, algorithms, machine learning, data mining, and/or next-generation sequencing data preferred.
Applicants interested in postdoctoral researcher opportunities can send their cover letter and CV to Maureen Kirsch at [email protected].