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The Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (ICBR) invites applications for a 12-month, non-tenured, full-time faculty position at the level of Assistant or Associate Scientist to serve as the Bioinformatics Scientific Director. The ICBR is the premiere biotechnology shared resource center at the University of Florida whose mission is to provide easy access to key expertise and cutting-edge technology to support life science research. The BI Scientific Director will serve as the ICBR site expert in bioinformatics setting the strategic vision for the group, leading the development of data analysis approaches, and implementing bioinformatics methodologies to support the needs of the UF research community. Reporting to the ICBR Associate Director for Science, the BI Scientific Director must possess a strong computational and quantitative biology background that includes a broad understanding of key biological concepts and have significant experience in software and database engineering enabling an integrated understanding of biological data analysis as it relates to underlying biological processes. An extensive experience with the analysis of large data sets generated by next generation sequencing is required. As leader of the BI Shared Resource, the BI Scientific Director sets priorities, leads staff meetings, attends the ICBR Senior Staff meetings and ICBR Strategic Retreats, and schedules meetings of the Scientific Advisory Group, a faculty-level oversight committee. Additional duties include establishing validated standard operating procedures to ensure rigor and reproducibility, effective budget management, rate setting and review, and staff supervision and recruitment. We seek candidates with a distinguished record of accomplishments in bioinformatics, including but not limited to a proven track record of developing innovative tools and applications for computational biology, of providing bioinformatics support for complex research projects involving multidisciplinary scientific teams, and a strong publication record in bioinformatics and computational biology. Outstanding customer service is key to ICBR’s success, and this position requires a positive, collegial, and customer-centric attitude. The BI Scientific Director will not establish an independent research program and is not dependent upon external grant-based funding.
– Provides administrative support to the Director of ICBR, Associate Director of Science, and Assistant Director of Operations. Assists with Admin’s email, calendars, meetings, and coordinates travel. Drafts correspondence and collects/organizes information for reports. Coordinates special administrative projects, including tracking of letters of support and pilot projects.
– Provides project management support for discussions and decision-making. Incumbent organizes and provides necessary information for project management meetings, keeping track of action items, due dates, and follow-up. Runs systems through JIRA and Confluence. Provides reporting based on system management. Receives and maintains confidential information on behalf of the Director of ICBR, Associate Director of Science, and Assistant Director of Operations.
– Covers the ICBR reception area. Creates and maintains unit filing systems and workflows for the reception area. Reviews the office supply inventory. Handles front desk coverage including answering phones and directing clients to the appropriate areas, sign for and deliver packages, delivering mail, answering general inquiries, data entry, and other tasks as necessary. Deposits and approves checks and processes credit card payments when needed and maintain training for same.
– Serves as an ICBR requisitioner in myUF Marketplace. Adheres to all UF policies regarding purchasing and pcard use. Creates and tracks requisitions for ICBR purchases. Coordinates special orders for ICBR laboratories as needed. Serves as a backup to shopping carts and purchase orders.
– Organizes events for both senior staff and ICBR all. Coordinates annual ICBR Strategic Retreat, Champion of the Quarter annual event, and annual ICBR Picnic. Helps coordinate all ICBR external events for vendors. This includes scheduling, room reservations, catering, guest invitations, communication with vendors, securing IT support, agenda preparation, etc.
– Schedules all staff meetings, onboarding meetings with new hires, and all ICBR Tours. Maintains the Contact Us and Director listervs. Other miscellaneous duties, as required.
The Proteomics core in the Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (ICBR) is hiring a Post Doctoral Associate. ICBR is a fee for service science center focused on enabling scientific discovery and innovation with good customer service and access to world-class biotechnology expertise and instrumentation.
Job Duties:
– Develop, test, and validate new methodologies using mass spectrometry for microbial metabolomics
– Establish a comprehensive target spectral library. The process involves ordering the compounds and optimizing them through mass spectrometry techniques.
– Prepare written SOPs documenting new methodologies; prepare manuscripts for submission to peer-reviewed journals
– Other duties as required.
Technical Functions:
-Plan and execute Illumina MiSeq sequencing runs.
-Maintain and troubleshoot Illumina MiSeq instruments.
-Evaluate MiSeq, iSeq and ONT instruments data and prepare written reports for research projects.
-Construct and perform quality assessment of samples, and sequence libraries for the ONT, PacBio and Illumina platforms.
-Test, troubleshoot and implement new protocols for ultra-low input (Illumina) library construction protocol, using novel procedures as they become available in the literature or from vendors.
-Communicate with supervisor and other core personnel about experimental results in a timely and professional manner. Work with supervisor to define deliverables and timelines for project completion.
-Contribute to the preparation, updating and organization of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
General Lab Operation and Maintenance Functions:
-Contribute to the development and maintenance of lab tracking system (LIMS) in the NGS workflows.
-Attend all relevant coordination and organizational meetings as requested by supervisor.
-Participate in general lab maintenance, help in the maintenance of a complete inventory of reagents, consumables and equipment used for NGS sequencing.
-Assist lab manager in keeping track of inventories and placing orders of reagents, consumables for ONT, PacBio and Illumina sequencing as needed.
-Assist the Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) manager for the NextGen lab as needed, for the purpose of complying with all EHS institutional requirements.
No new positions at this time.
ICBR-ContactUs@ad.ufl.edu
Phone: (352) 273-8030
Fax: (352) 273-8070
8:00am-5:00pm
Monday – Friday