What are the responsibilities and job description for the Postdoctoral Fellow - Bioinformatics position at University Center for Academic Excellence at UNC Charlotte?
Position Information
General Information
Position Number POST40 Working Title Postdoctoral Fellow - Bioinformatics Division Academic Affairs Department Coll of Computing&Informatics (Col) Work Unit Bioinformatics and Genomics Work Location NC Research Campus Vacancy Open To All Candidates Position Designation Post Doc Employment Type Temporary - Full-time Hours per week 40 hours per week Work Schedule
Du-Lab members are expected to work in the office on the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) in Kannapolis (20 miles north of UNC Charlotte main campus) 4 days a week and work remotely one day (mostly Wednesdays) a week
Education
Pay Rate Pay Rate varies Minimum Experience/Education
The Postdoctoral appointee must have recently (within the last eight years) been awarded a Ph.D. or equivalent doctorate (e.g., Sc.D., M.D.)
Departmental Preferred Experience, Skills, Training/Education: Duties and Responsibilities
A Postdoctoral Fellow (""postdoc"") is a professional apprenticeship designed to provide recent Ph.D. recipients with an opportunity to develop further the research skills acquired in their doctoral programs or to learn new research techniques, in preparation for an academic or research career. In the process of further developing their own research skills, it is expected that Postdoctoral Fellows will also play a significant role in the performance of research at the University and augment the role of graduate faculty in providing research instruction to graduate students. A Postdoctoral Fellow works under the supervision of a regular faculty member, who serves as a mentor to the Fellow, and it is expected that the faculty mentor will impart the realities, and variety, of scientific careers, and will encourage experiences outside the laboratory to broaden postdocs’ aspirations. Within the confines of the particular research focus assigned by that faculty member, the Postdoctoral Fellow functions with a considerable degree of independence and has the freedom (and is expected) to publish the results of his or her research or scholarship during the period of appointment. Thus, the role of Postdoctoral Fellows is clearly differentiated from full-time technical employees.
Postdoc appointments are characterized by all of the following conditions:
Other Work/Responsibilities
The primary responsibility of this position is to perform innovative research in data analytics and publish research results. A particular focus of your research will be on mining publicly available data repositories and use machine learning to discover linkages between heterogeneous biological, social, and environmental data and human health.A second research focus of this position is to build a list of key enzymes, genes, and polymorphisms that have known links to essential nutrients, environmentally relevant compounds, and dietary biomarkers. Another responsibility of this position is to assist in preparing annual project reports for grants that fund your
research. This includes providing technical details of your research and milestones that you have achieved.
Necessary Licenses or Certifications Proposed Hire Date 01/20/2025 Contact Information
Xiuxia Du, xiuxia.du@charlotte.edu
Expected Length of Assignment 12 months Posting Open Date 10/16/2024 Posting Close Date Special Notes to Applicants
Posting Specific Questions
Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).
Required Documents
General Information
Position Number POST40 Working Title Postdoctoral Fellow - Bioinformatics Division Academic Affairs Department Coll of Computing&Informatics (Col) Work Unit Bioinformatics and Genomics Work Location NC Research Campus Vacancy Open To All Candidates Position Designation Post Doc Employment Type Temporary - Full-time Hours per week 40 hours per week Work Schedule
Du-Lab members are expected to work in the office on the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) in Kannapolis (20 miles north of UNC Charlotte main campus) 4 days a week and work remotely one day (mostly Wednesdays) a week
Education
Pay Rate Pay Rate varies Minimum Experience/Education
The Postdoctoral appointee must have recently (within the last eight years) been awarded a Ph.D. or equivalent doctorate (e.g., Sc.D., M.D.)
Departmental Preferred Experience, Skills, Training/Education: Duties and Responsibilities
A Postdoctoral Fellow (""postdoc"") is a professional apprenticeship designed to provide recent Ph.D. recipients with an opportunity to develop further the research skills acquired in their doctoral programs or to learn new research techniques, in preparation for an academic or research career. In the process of further developing their own research skills, it is expected that Postdoctoral Fellows will also play a significant role in the performance of research at the University and augment the role of graduate faculty in providing research instruction to graduate students. A Postdoctoral Fellow works under the supervision of a regular faculty member, who serves as a mentor to the Fellow, and it is expected that the faculty mentor will impart the realities, and variety, of scientific careers, and will encourage experiences outside the laboratory to broaden postdocs’ aspirations. Within the confines of the particular research focus assigned by that faculty member, the Postdoctoral Fellow functions with a considerable degree of independence and has the freedom (and is expected) to publish the results of his or her research or scholarship during the period of appointment. Thus, the role of Postdoctoral Fellows is clearly differentiated from full-time technical employees.
Postdoc appointments are characterized by all of the following conditions:
- the appointee was recently (within the last eight years) awarded a Ph.D. or equivalent doctorate (e.g., Sc.D., M.D.);
- the appointment is temporary;
- the appointment involves substantially full-time research or scholarship;
- the appointment is viewed as preparatory for a full-time academic and/or research career;
- the appointee works under the supervision of a faculty member; and
- the appointee has the freedom and is expected to publish the results of his or her research or scholarship during the period of appointment.
Other Work/Responsibilities
The primary responsibility of this position is to perform innovative research in data analytics and publish research results. A particular focus of your research will be on mining publicly available data repositories and use machine learning to discover linkages between heterogeneous biological, social, and environmental data and human health.A second research focus of this position is to build a list of key enzymes, genes, and polymorphisms that have known links to essential nutrients, environmentally relevant compounds, and dietary biomarkers. Another responsibility of this position is to assist in preparing annual project reports for grants that fund your
research. This includes providing technical details of your research and milestones that you have achieved.
Necessary Licenses or Certifications Proposed Hire Date 01/20/2025 Contact Information
Xiuxia Du, xiuxia.du@charlotte.edu
Expected Length of Assignment 12 months Posting Open Date 10/16/2024 Posting Close Date Special Notes to Applicants
Posting Specific Questions
Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).
- How did you hear about this employment opportunity?
- UNC Charlotte Website
- HERC Job Board
- Inside Higher Education
- Circa (formerly known as Local JobNetwork)
- Another Website
- Agency Referral
- Advertisement/Publication
- Personal Referral
- Other
- Where did you learn about this posting? (Open Ended Question)
Required Documents
- Cover Letter / Letter of Interest
- Resume / Curriculum Vitae
