Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) – Computational biology

A Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) – Computational biology position is available in the Centre for Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine, King’s College London. This is an exciting opportunity to join an interdisciplinary team of scientists working on a Wellcome Trust funded research programme aimed at studying the mammalian germ cell niche in its complexity using a combination of cutting-edge cellular / molecular models and computational approaches.

The postdoc will work under the supervision of Dr. Mahesh Sangrithi and play a key role in setting up an innovative inter-disciplinary strategy able to analyse and integrate different omics data sets, and further amalgamating these with phenotypic data. The project will employ state of the art genomics, statistical and bioinformatics approaches to discover factors and pathways that regulate germline development.

The post holder will be involved with the analysis and integration of high throughput genomics data, such scRNA-seq, scATAC-seq, ChIP-seq as well as spatial data. They will also contribute to the overall regenerative medicine theme via participation in projects with scientists and other bioinformaticians in the host lab and the department.

We are looking for an ambitious candidate with established expertise in bioinformatics, specifically dealing with large omics data sets and data integration. Their will have solid programming skills, expert knowledge of scripting languages such as R and / or Python and proficiency in working on high-performance Linux clusters.

Applicants should have a recent Ph.D. degree or should have submitted their thesis.

For informal enquiries regarding suitability for the position, please contact the group leader Dr. Mahesh Sangrithi (Mahesh.sangrithi@kcl.ac.uk ).

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/reproductive-biology-and-stem-cells-lab