The Kaundal Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Bioinformatics Lab, KAABiL (kaabil.net/) at the Center for Integrated BioSystems (CIB), Department of Plants, Soils, & Climate, Utah State University (USU), is inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow under the recently awarded grant to investigate the mechanisms of Host-Pathogen interactions on a genome scale. The project, entitled “Decoding the Poultry-HPAI Interactome: An Integrative Pipeline for Targeted Therapeutics Against Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza” will address the mechanisms of pathogenesis and develop novel therapeutics to address HPAI control in poultry (e.g. comparative analysis of multiple host-pathogen Protein Interaction Networks (PINs) that may allow us to identify conserved mechanisms of pathogen cellular invasion), and (ii) provide bioinformatics solutions / tools to curate and visualize such PINs in a user-friendly way, leading to advance host-targeted antiviral discovery.
Qualifications:
1. Ph.D. degree in Biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Math/Stats, or related life sciences field.
2. Programming skills with Python, R, Java, C/C++, or Perl, and efficiency in Linux / UNIX operating systems.
3. Independent problem-solving skills.
4. Have good communication skills, strong team-work spirit, and self-learning abilities.
Preferred Qualifications:
1. Ph.D. degree in Computational Biology, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Computer Science or highly related field.
2. Experience in developing Machine Learning-based models and large-scale data analysis systems.
3. Knowledge about PINs, graphical models such as the dynamic Bayesian networks.
Please apply directly at the following link of USU employment webpage:
Apply at: careers-usu.icims.com/jobs/10028/postdoctoral-fellow-i/job