Staff Associate II

The Department of Pathology and Cell Biology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center seeks a highly qualified candidate that will work in concert with a wet bench neurobiology lab and dry lab bioinformatics lab. The position will require a strong understanding of brain development as well as a strong background in data modeling with fluency in R and Python. This individual will be responsible for generating a biological dataset set with various pharmacological interventions and then processing the data through an already established pipeline, which will generate a very large, multidimensional dataset. The individual will then analyze this dataset through multiple measures in order to ascertain signal and background.

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Job Function:

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  Will perform immunohistochemistry and confocal imaging of biological samples

  
  
  
• Will help plan experiments with respect to drug dosages and replicate numbers

• Will run dataset through synaptic analysis pipeline and assess data fidelity

• Will perform multiple standard read-outs from multidimensional dataset

• Will plan and perform novel analyses on dataset to establish signal and background parameters

Lab Mission/Purpose:

The Au lab is a basic developmental neurobiology lab that focuses on the short-range inhibitory cells of the neocortex: cortical interneurons. Specifically, we are interested the development and early circuit integration of cortical interneurons and how mis-integration can contribute to the etiology of neuropsychiatric disease. More information can be found on our lab website: https://www.pathology.columbia.edu/profile/edmund-au-phd \

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Minimum Education Requirements:

Bachelors degree or equivalent in related research field.

Minimum Skills Required:

• BSc or equivalent
• Background in cortical development
• Proficiency in Python, data modeling and machine learning

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior work experience in handling, manipulating and analyzing complex, large datasets
• Background in biomedical engineering

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Hiring Salary Range:

Staff Associate II- $60,255- $62,000