Post Doctoral Scholar

Job Description Details

The Department of Internal Medicine at The Ohio State University invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Scholar position in Dr. Shanlin Kes lab. The overarching goal of Dr. Kes lab is to develop computational approaches and leveraging bioinformatics tools, metagenomic sequencing, multi-omics data, machine learning, and wet-lab techniques to investigate the role of the human microbiome in human health and diseases and to develop microbiome-based therapeutics. The candidate will have the opportunity to learn and lead exciting research projects that integrate computational and experimental approaches to study host-microbiota interactions in pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer.

Required Qualification:

• Doctoral degree in Microbiology, Biomedical Sciences, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or a related discipline is required by the start of employment.
• Experience in conducting microbiome research, including processing metagenomic sequencing data.
• Strong programming skills (e.g., R and Python).
• Experience with cloud computing.
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills, and a strong publication record.

Desired Qualification:

• Strong background/interest in host-microbiota interaction in pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer.
• Strong background/interest in machine learning, in vivo and in vitro experiments.