Job Description:
We are looking for an ambitious, driven post-doctoral scientist to lead computational analysis and method development for large multi-omics experiments focusing on epigenomics, transcriptomics and chromatin topology. The work will focus on stem cells and hematological malignancies and will take place in the context of a close and productive collaboration between three laboratories at Weill Cornell Medicine and in the Meyer Cancer Center: Dr Olivier Elemento, whose group focuses on cancer genomics, precision medicine and cancer systems biology, Dr. Ari Melnick who studies epigenomics of hematological malignancies and hematopoietic development and Dr. Effie Apostolou who studies the epigenomics and chromatin topology of embryonic stem cells. The group has collectively advanced the field and published hundreds of papers in the past few years in the areas of epigenomics and chromatin topology applied to problems of high biomedical relevance. The post-doctoral scientist will perform computational analyses to integrate and interpret massive multi-omics genome-wide biological datasets (RNA-seq, ERRBS, ChIP-seq, HiC etc) generate testable hypotheses, build predictive models that will further drive experimental discovery. The candidate will be integrated into the Institute of Computational Biomedicine (ICB), which hosts a petabyte scale high-performance computing infrastructure. The ICB also has a large group of talented and experienced computational biologists with a strong focus on cancer genomics on whom the post-doctoral scientist can rely for intellectual input, support and extensive computational resources. The position is ideal for a candidate who if successful seeks relatively fast and successful academic progress to an instructor and assistant professor position. |
