HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Department of Biostatistics
655 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
(617) 432-1056
FAX: (617) 432-5619
dept@biostat.harvard.edu
Postdoctoral Research Position in Bioinformatics
Description:
Dr. Curtis Huttenhower in the Biostatistics Department of the Harvard School of Public
Health seeks a postdoctoral fellow. The successful candidate will be responsible for
funded research projects including methods development for high-dimensional
multivariate phenotype association and applications to metagenomic biomarker
discovery. The Huttenhower lab is broadly engaged in multiple collaborative studies of
the roles of the human microbiome in health and disease, with a focus on computational
methods to characterize biomolecular functions within these microbial communities and
their interactions with host immunity and genetics.
The postdoctoral fellow will perform quantitative methods development for the analysis
of structured high-dimensional phenotypic, genetic, genomic, and metagenomic data.
Specifically, computational methods are required to control false discovery rates when
integrating multiple genetic (e.g. polymorphisms), genomic (e.g. gene expression),
metagenomic, and phenotypic (e.g. disease status, biometrics, demographics, diet) data
types. These methods will in turn be applied to the integration of multiple studies of the
structure and function of the human microbiome in order to determine its causal and
correlative associations with disease phenotypes. The candidate will be responsible for
both computational methods development and these initial applications, should be
broadly conversant with bioinformatic techniques for genomic data analysis, and will be
supported by programming staff for the implementation of developed methods as
publicly available research software.
The position will be located within the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School
of Public Health; the Huttenhower group works closely with the Broad Institute, the
Human Microbiome Project, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and the broader Boston
biomedical and life sciences communities, resulting in a rich environment for
quantitative, computational, and laboratory collaborations.
Qualifications:
Doctoral degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Biology, or a related
field; familiarity with functional genetic and/or genomic data, as indicated by publication
record; proficiency in one or more statistical or scripting languages appropriate for
scalable data analysis; ability to communicate scientific material and collaborate well.
HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Department of Biostatistics
655 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
(617) 432-1056
FAX: (617) 432-5619
dept@biostat.harvard.edu
Additional Information:
Please submit a cover letter (including a brief but detailed statement of interest), CV, and
contact information for at least three references to Dr. Curtis Huttenhower at
chuttenh@hsph.harvard.edu AND to biostat_postdoc@hsph.harvard.edu.