Laboratory Research Associate - 135132
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UCSD Layoff from Career Appointment: Apply by 4/16/2025 for consideration with preference for rehire. All layoff applicants should contact their Employment Advisor. Special Selection Applicants: Apply by 4/28/2025. Eligible Special Selection clients should contact their Disability Counselor for assistance. Current UC San Diego Health employees who apply by 4/21/2025 will have priority consideration for this position. Recruiters will refer qualified internal candidates after the first 7 days of the job posting. All qualified external applicants and additional internal applicants who apply after the priority date may have further consideration pending the results of the initial review. The Department of Pediatrics is one of the largest departments within the School of Medicine with approximately 171 Faculty, 60 post- doctoral fellows (both MDs and PhDs) along with over 300 support staff (not including hospital staff). In addition, the Department has 57 clinical residents and fellows distributed across the Divisions. The missions of research, education and patient care are intertwined, and are integral to the goals of the department. The Department has undergone significant growth in recent years with a consolidated budget of approximately $106 million including sponsored projects expenditures of approximately $54 million and clinical revenue of over $ 52 million. This expansion of the Department's research and clinical portfolio is expected to continue in the next few years. The Department's 18 divisions include Academic General Pediatrics, Child Development & Community Health; Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology; Cardiology; Dermatology; Dysmorphology; Emergency Medicine; Endocrinology; Gastroenterology; Genetics; Genome Information Sciences; Hospital Medicine; Infectious Diseases; Neonatology; Nephrology; Pharmacology & Drug Discovery; Rehabilitation Medicine; and Respiratory Medicine. In 2001, physicians and leadership of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Rady Children's, and Children's Specialists of San Diego (CSSD) unified pediatric patient care, research, education and community service programs, creating a university-affiliated children's health system to serve the region. Over the past two decades, an extensive list of joint programs has developed, with many physicians and researchers playing a role at both institutions. This affiliation has consolidated the clinical, teaching, research and public service programs of the UCSD School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics with San Diego's only health care system dedicated to the health and well-being of children. In 2009, this partnership was furthered by the creation of Rady Children's Specialists of San Diego, a Medical Foundation, and is now recognized as having global leaders in research, technology, translational medicine, education and clinical excellence. Under general supervision, the incumbent will independently perform primary computational biology analysis for the laboratory, including sequencing analysis of single cell RNA sequencing experiments. Chromatin immunoprecipitation-sequencing experiments, bulk RNA-sequencing experiments, and assay of transposase accessibility sequencing experiments. Will perform these analyses using both the R and Python programming languages, and will have to be able to download and implement software packages from, but not limited to, BioConductor, BioStars, ScanPy, and Seurat. Contributes original and innovative ideas related to experiments and data interpretation. The incumbent will also be in charge of management of lab-related supercomputing cluster access and dataframe management and lab server file storage. Maintains and prepares accurate records of all experiments. Assist in the preparation of data for publication. Responsible for deposition of sequencing data into open access databases. Provides training, work direction and supervision in areas of computational expertise as needed to all students and postdoctoral fellows. Performs other duties as assigned including primary analysis for collaborations with other research groups requiring analysis of sequencing experiments. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Pay Transparency Act Annual Full Pay Range: $66,441 - $106,839 (will be prorated if the appointment percentage is less than 100%) Hourly Equivalent: $31.82 - $51.17 Factors in determining the appropriate compensation for a role include experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The Hiring Pay Scale referenced in the job posting is the budgeted salary or hourly range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position. The Annual Full Pay Range may be broader than what the University anticipates to pay for this position, based on internal equity, budget, and collective bargaining agreements (when applicable). |