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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Lab of Jerry Chen at Boston University is hiring a
<span style="color:#333333;background:white">Staff-Level Data Scientist to be involved in several multi-year BRAIN Initiative related NIH and NSF funded projects. </span><span style="color:#3E3E3E;background:white"> These projects focus on understanding cortical
computation during behavior by combining behavior, genomics, spatial transcriptomics, anatomical reconstructions, and large-scale population recordings. This person will be involved in help to analyze experimental data, developing software tools to aid
in the data analysis, and helping with data infrastructure and management. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">Specific Projects include:</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Analysis of genomic data.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;list-style-position:outside">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Image analysis for in situ sequencing of gene expression (ie. spatial transcriptomics)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;list-style-position:outside">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Automated behavioral training and video analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;list-style-position:outside">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Analysis of dense electron microscope reconstructions of neuronal connectivity (ie. Connectomics).<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">Required Skills:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">BA/BS degree (MS/PhD preferred) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Bioinformatics, Neuroscience or related technical field.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">One to three years of academic or professional experience.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Programming experience in MATLAB, Python, and R is required.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Extensive background in either genomic analysis, image analysis, computer vision, or machine learning is preferred.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E;background:white">If interested in applying, please submit a CV along with 3 references to </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=jerry@chen-lab.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none">jerry@chen-lab.org</span></a>
<span style="color:#3E3E3E;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Jerry Chen, PhD.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Assistant Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Department of Biology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Boston University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:jerry@chen-lab.org"><span style="color:#0563C1">jerry@chen-lab.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">www.chen-lab.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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