Company Information: Virginia Commonwealth University is the largest university in Virginia and ranks among the top universities in the country in sponsored research. Located on two downtown campuses in Richmond VCU enrolls more than 32000 students in 208 certificate and degree programs in the arts sciences and humanities. Sixty-five of the programs are unique in Virginia many of them crossing the disciplines of VCU’s 15 schools and one college. MCV Hospitals and the health sciences schools of Virginia Commonwealth University compose the VCU Medical Center one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers.

Position Title: Postdoctoral fellow

Duties & Responsibilities: Two postdoctoral fellow positions (2-3 year extension possible) in Statistical genetics and Bioinformatics are available in the Department of Biostatistics at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). One position will focus on haplotyping quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping identifying gene-gene and gene-environment interactions for complex traits with large pedigrees. The other position will focus on genome-wide association studies (GWAS) using genome-wide SNPs and gene expression data admixture mapping sequencing data analysis and multiple hypothesis testing. Other possible research topics for both positions include copy number variation analysis and statistical and computational epigenetics. There will be ample opportunities for both methodological and applied collaborative research (with human geneticists at VCU).

Position Qualifications: Candidates should have substantial statistical (or mathematical) expertise have strong programming skills in C C++ R or a similar computer language and will hold a PhD in statistics biostatistics mathematics genetics computer science engineering computational biology or other related areas. Previous experience in quantitative genetics or computational biology such as family data analysis association studies or gene expression analysis is desirable but not essential. The postdoctoral fellows will work with Drs. Guimin Gao and Shumei Sun. Applicants should send curriculum vitae and statement of research interests by email to Dr. Guimin Gao (at gmgaous@yahoo.com and Ggao@ms.soph.uab.edu) or to Dr. Shumei Sun (at ssun@vcu.edu). Dr. Gao will join VCU in Dec. 2009 (http://www.soph.uab.edu/ssg/people/gao).

Salary Range: commensurate with experience

Benefits: Benefits: stardard benefit package for postdoc

Web Site: http://www.vcu.edu/about/

Application Address: Guimin Gao

Contact Email: Ggao@ms.soph.uab.edu

Application Deadline: until positions are filled