Research Associate - Biocurator 2
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About The Position
The Department of Genetics is seeking a Research Associate (Biocurator) in the Translational and Integrative Sciences Laboratory (TISLab.org), led by Dr. Melissa Haendel. TISLab focuses on areas such as automated and manual bio data curation, knowledge representation, semantic engineering, automated reasoning, and the development and evaluation of algorithms and software systems that advance these practices in support of artificial intelligence. The Biocurator will join a highly interactive, supportive, and interdisciplinary group of faculty, staff scientists, postdoctoral fellows, and students. The Biocurator position includes learning ontology development and annotation, as well as data quality assurance and consistency methods. The Biocurator will work on programs aiming to integrate genotype-phenotype knowledge for the purposes of rare disease diagnostics and mechanism discovery. This position will also gather research for toxicological parameters experiments and the phenotypic outcomes as documented within imaging data. The Biocurator will assist with data annotation and analysis from the literature and user data submission. The Biocurator will participate in meetings with the ontology development teams and calls with local and international domain experts. Successful job performance will require learning and implementing the curation framework and protocols developed in research projects assigned. The Biocurator will track the progress of their curation projects and will also provide feedback on curation tools and protocols. Major responsibilities of this position include supporting image and other data annotations using ontology terms and other standards for metadata. They will also work to expand the ontologies and standards as needed. Other responsibilities include technical contribution to research publications and preliminary work for grants and funding applications, as well as collaborations with community-wide efforts aimed at promoting open, integrated, and rigorous practices in research, data curation, and scholarly communication. The Biocurator will also contribute to the overall mentorship of trainees within the TISLab. Flexible work arrangements, including virtual/hybrid work locations, are an integral part of the School of Medicine's Working Forward initiative. As such, this position's work location is designated as virtual. Please note that the designated work location is subject to change based on the unit's business needs.
