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This position includes both project and laboratory management roles. The lab supervisor will track the lab on-going projects by communicating with Principle Investigator and researchers/trainees to successfully complete projects with deadlines. Also, lab supervisor will maintain supplies and facilitate all aspects of the daily operations of the laboratory. This includes coordination of all routine maintenance schedules including cell lines and animals. The incumbent will also help to train students, both pre-doctoral and post-doctoral and all new laboratory personnel in basic laboratory safety, required computational tasks, and correct instrument usage as directed by the Principal Investigator. Lab supervisor will also support PIs work on preparing grant applications. The incumbent will be responsible for data management. Responsibilities will include leading activities on quality control checks, cleaning and preparing data for analysis. Detailed data dictionaries will also need to be prepared to accompany the data for widespread use by internal and external researchers. Biostatistical and bioinformatics responsibilities include conducting both traditional biostatistical, novel machine learning and other bioinformatics analytic methods to the complex data collected from several research projects as well as external research collaborators. Analysis work will range in the identification of genetic/genomic, neurologica, immune, and other risk factors in Gulf-war illness, cognitive aging and dementia. Additional responsibilities will include the development of statistical pipeline for analyzing complex MRI imaging data, management of brain aging phenotypes. The position requires advanced programming skills for data analytics as well as building on an existing codebase to add features extraction of novel computed measures.

Required Skills

This position requires a bachelor's degree in a related field of study with 2-3 years of direct experience. includes both project and laboratory management roles.

Please note all newly hired staff and faculty will need to be in compliance with Boston University’s COVID-19 Vaccination and Booster Requirement (https://www.bu.edu/hr/hr-covid-19-resources/vaccine-required-for-faculty-and-staff/) within 30 days of date of hire. You must upload your vaccine documentation or request a medical or religious exemption ( instructions (https://www.bu.edu/hr/hr-covid-19-resources/upload-your-covid-vaccination-documentation/) ). For further information on the University’s response to COVID-19, please visit the COVID-19 Resources (https://www.bu.edu/buohc/covid-19/) site.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, natural or protective hairstyle, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military service, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, or because of marital, parental, or veteran status. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor .

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