Dear all,
Happy New Year and please pass this on to anyone who might be interested. It is a wonderful opportunity to learn a lot in a very nice part of the world for anyone who is free to travel. Enquiries about the post should be made to Elizabeth Thompson, as directed below, and not to myself.
All the best,
Nuala
Two-year postdoctoral position in Statistical Genetics
THIS POSITION MUST BE FILLED SOON
Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
A 100% postdoctoral Research Associate position is available, on funding
which started Sept 30, 2009. This position is under the supervision
of Dr. Elizabeth Thompson (www.stat.washington.edu/~thompson), and is
funded by NIGMS through ARRA. Salary and benefits will be in accordance
with NIH and University of Washington salary scales and policies.
Note: Positions on ARRA funding are NOT restricted to US citizens/residents.
Subject to satisfactory performance and availability of funding,
this is a two-year position to work on a specific project funded under ARRA.
This exciting project involves development of statistical and computational
methods to infer coancestry of genome segments among individuals selected from
populations. Studies include feasibility and performance analyses, using real
haplotypic data imposed on simulated population pedigrees.
Requirements:
Ph. D. in Computational Biology or Genomics, Population
Genetics, Statistics, Biostatistics, or a related field.
Demonstrated programming skills, including use of the
Standard C language and UNIX/Linux operating systems.
Some knowledge/experience in complex stochastic systems (HMMs
or MCMC) and/or statistical population genetics.
Enquiries BY PLAIN TEXT E-MAIL ONLY PLEASE, should be sent to Professor
Elizabeth Thompson, ([log in to unmask]). Please do NOT send
email attachments as WORD documents, HTML etc. If you wish to provide
supporting information, please send a reference to a web page
or PDF attachments only. If applying, please provide email addresses
of 3 referees.
The University of Washington is building a culturally diverse faculty and
strongly encourages applications from women and minority candidates. AA/EOE.
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