Summary
We seek multiple talented and motivated postdocs in computational biology to join the Cancer Genomics and Evolution laboratory of Peter Van Loo at MD Anderson. The post holders will spearhead projects in large-scale cancer genomics, with a focus on elucidating the evolutionary history of cancer metastases.
The Cancer Genomics and Evolution laboratory
The Cancer Genomics and Evolution laboratory is based in the department of Genetics at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. Our research focuses on large-scale pan-cancer genomics to gain insight into the genes, mutational processes and evolution of cancer. Our work is highly data-driven, with a focus on large-scale data analysis to gain broad biological insight and on the development of computational methods to enable conceptually novel analyses. The research group is mostly computational with a small wet-lab component.
Since its inception, members of the Cancer Genomics laboratory have co-authored 15 papers in Nature, Science or Cell. Recent successes include pan-cancer studies of the evolutionary history of cancer (Gerstung et al., Nature 2020), intra-tumor heterogeneity (Dentro et al., Cell 2021) and the mutational landscape in non-unique regions of the human genome (Tarabichi et al., Nature Biotechnology 2021).
Start date – between February 1st, 2022 and September 1st, 2022
Duration – postdoctoral positions are available for 3 years, and can potentially be extended up to 5 years
More information - www.mdanderson.org/research/departments-labs-institutes/labs/vanloo-laboratory.html
The ideal candidate will have a PhD in computational biology (bioinformatics, genomics, biostatistics, …) and experience doing research in the field of cancer genomics, although we welcome applications from candidates with diverse educational backgrounds, including computational biology, physics and (bio)statistics, biology or medicine. Applicants must have a proven publication record.
A computing background is not strictly necessary, but you must be keen to work in a dry setting. For applicants with computing experience, fluency in Linux, and excellent knowledge in a programming language is expected (R/BioConductor, Perl, Python, …). Prior experience with handling massively parallel sequencing data is considered an advantage.
Postdocs will spearhead projects in cancer genomics and tumor evolution. They are expected to lead their own project, contribute to other projects on a collaborative basis (both within the lab and with external collaborators) and guide PhD students in their research. The ability to work in a team is essential.
Please email pvanloo@mdanderson.org
1. Cover letter or email stating your general career objectives and research interests
2. CV with publication list
3. Names and contact information of three references
Informal inquiries – contact pvanloo@mdanderson.org