Job Title: Research Associate
Location: Chinese University of Hong Kong
Job Type: Full time 44 hrs/week
Salary: Ranges from 14k to 25k HKD per month, depends on qualification and
work experience.
Job Description:
A research associate or research assistant opening in the
Zhong Lab, school of life sciences, the chinese university of hong kong is
available from Sep 2014. It is funded by a 3y UGC project to investigate
transcription factor and gene expression network using large scale ChIP-Seq
and RNA-Seq data. Salary ranges from 14k to 25k HKD per month, depends on
qualification and work experience.
The applicants are expected to have a bachelor degree (or higher) in a
relevant math/computer science background such as CS, mathematics, statistics, population genetics, bioinformatics, genomics or even particle
physics. The applicant would routinely use packages in R or Matlab and
program in either Perl, Python or C. Good knowledge in math and statistics
is important. Since the wet lab part of the Zhong group mainly focuses on
generating high-throughput sequencing data (BS-Seq, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq,
small RNA-Seq DNAseI-Seq and HiC), interest in working with a NGS team is
important. In addition, interests in machine learning and network modeling
would be a great bonus!
The Zhong Lab is part of The State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnolgoy, in
The School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. It is a
sequencing lab with a strong research focus on crop functional genomics,
particularly those related to growth hormones and developmental processes.
The key resource and advantage of the lab is the knowhow and in-house
capacity of performing Illumina sequencing and the ability of analyze genomic
data.
Please send the following materials to silin.zhong (at) cuhk.edu.hk:
*CV and contact information for references
*a cover letter explaining your research
*interests and career goals
*what training you hope to gain in our lab.
Lab website: http://137.189.43.55/