Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational and Systems Biology
Department: Machine Learning, Computational Biology
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Keywords: computational biology, graphical models, Networks, Systems biology, time series analysis
Posted on: Monday, May 3rd, 2010
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The Systems Biology Group at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (www.sb.cs.cmu.edu) is inviting applications for a postdoctoral researcher in computational and systems biology. Our group focuses on modeling regulatory and signaling networks and on cross species analysis of high throughput biological data. We develop and use computational methods utilizing techniques from machine learning, statistics and combinatorics in order to solve important biological questions. We are collaborating with multiple experimental groups and most of our algorithms lead to new hypotheses which are experimentally validated by our collaborators.
The open positions are in two major lines of research:
1. Reconstructing dynamic networks in the cell. We are interested in developing methods that utilize graphical models and graph theoretic algorithms to combine dynamic (temporal) and static information from high throughput biological data in order to reconstruct the flow of information in the cell. Applications include modeling of stress responses, cell cycle, infections, predicting timing of binding of transcription factors, their combinatorial interactions and the pathways activating them.
2. Cross species analysis of interaction networks. While sequence is highly conserved, most interaction networks are much less conserved, even between close species. We are interested in developing methods to identify the conserved and divergent elements in interaction networks (including protein interactions, co-expression networks, genetic interactions etc.) and to use these similarities and differences to identify the mechanisms underlying various responses.
Carnegie Mellon is an excellent place for computational biology research. We have recently opened the computational biology department within the school of computer science and we have a joint PhD program with the University of Pittsburgh Medical School providing great opportunities to collaborate with leading computational and experimental researchers.
We are looking for candidates with a Ph.D. degree in computer science, statistics, bioinformatics, or related quantitative fields with publications in top conferences or journals in relevant areas of research.
Applicants should email a CV and the names of two potential references to Ziv Bar-Joseph
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