Bioinformatics Data Analyst II Job Opening in Salt Lake City, UT at University of Utah

The Adult Division within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Utah seeks a Senior Research Analyst to conduct advanced processing and advanced statistical analysis of complex neuroimaging data; and to interpret results. The work will involve using neuroimaging data and other measure from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. The individual will be working within Dr. Welsh’s lab, as well as working closely with collaborators at Indiana University. The individual will be using Linux based systems, will heavily rely on the R statistical package and will also use various open-source neuroimaging packages.

This is a 1-year position that is funded through a grant from the National Institutes of Health.

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This job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.

Essential Function

1.Data management of neuroimaging and related data from the ADNI repository.
2.Conducting neuroimaging data preprocessing.
3.Conducting neuroimaging data quality control.
4.Complete process documentation and management.
5.Working with open-source neuroimaging packages such as FSL, ANTs, SPM, FreeSurfer, HPC Workbench.
6.Writing custom processing pipelines within the R and bash computer languages.
7.Conducting non-image data quality control.
8.Working closely with PI and other Co-Investigators.
9.Writes research proposals, grants, and manuscripts; directs preparation of manuscripts and presentation materials.
10.Code management within git.
11.May devise methods for data processing and analysis.
12.May supervise junior research staff.

Bachelor’s of Science degree with a focus on Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Computer Science or Molecular Biology or equivalency; plus four years of experience in genomic data analysis required. Demonstrated human relations and effective communication skills also required.

Software development experience in object oriented programming using Java, Python, and or C and familiarity with molecular biology, genomics and some biostatistics helpful.

Master of Science degree or PhD in Bioinformatics, Computer Science and/or Life Sciences preferred.

This position has no responsibility for providing care to patients

Applicants must demonstrate the potential ability to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined in the position description.

Preferences

Individuals who also have experience with neuroimaging data and neuroimaging data processing.