Rutgers University
Research Assistant - Seasonal
🇺🇸 Piscataway, NJ
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $17 - $20 per Hour
💻 Research
🗓️ August 7th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Assist in analysis of single-cell and bulk RNA-seq transcriptomics datasets.
- Perform data preprocessing including quality control, normalization, and dimensionality reduction using bioinformatics pipelines.
- Generate summary statistics and data visualizations such as heatmaps, UMAPs, and violin plots.
- Contribute to exploratory data analysis to identify differentially expressed genes and pathway enrichments.
- Collaborate with principal investigator and lab members to integrate transcriptomic data with metadata, clinical, and spatial datasets.
- Maintain reproducible analysis code in R and/or Python and provide weekly progress updates.
- Participate in lab meetings and journal clubs to support research development.
- Contribute to manuscript preparation, figures, and presentations.
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or R and Unix/Linux command-line proficiency required.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or related discipline, or equivalent experience; familiarity with data visualization libraries and molecular biology concepts preferred.
- Compensation ranges from $17.00 to $20.00 per hour.
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