Immune Metabolism Modeling Scientist (Temporary)

Immune Metabolism Modeling Scientist (Temporary)

Department Biochemistry-0831

Description Of Work

As an Immune Metabolism Modeling Scientist , you will:

• Lead the development, validation, and application of genome-scale metabolic models using in-house computational tools.
• Integrate transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, lipidomics, and other omics data to contextualize metabolic models and investigate complex biological questions.
• Interpret modeling and multi-omics results to identify biological mechanisms, generate hypotheses, and guide research direction.
• Provide technical expertise and mentorship to students, research staff, postdoctoral researchers, and collaborators.
• Contribute to manuscripts, grant proposals, research presentations, and professional conferences.

Within the UNL system, this position is categorized an a M/P Temp Worker.

About Us

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Temporary employees may be appointed for a period of up to two years. Those appointed for more than six months are eligible for benefits from the beginning of the appointment, provided the position is half-time (.50 FTE ) or greater. Those appointed for six months or less are not eligible for benefits.

Benefits for eligible temporary employees include

• Paid time off including vacation and sick leave
• Comprehensive insurance options including health, dental, vision, and life insurance

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Minimum Required Qualifications

• PhD in computational biology, systems biology, bioinformatics, biological engineering, biophysics, mathematics, or related field plus two (2) years of post-degree experience in computational systems modeling, simulation, and analytics; OR
• Master’s degree in computational biology, systems biology, bioinformatics, biological engineering, biophysics, or related field plus four (4) years of post-degree experience in computational systems modeling, simulation, and analytics.
• Experience in metabolic model construction, simulations and analyses (e.g. FBA , dFBA, etc); AND
• Experience with analyzing multi-omics data (e.g., single cell and/or spatial transcriptomics, metabolomics, etc), computational biology, disease biomarkers, immune profiling is required
• Advanced computational and programming competence (e.g. Python, MATLAB , or R) is required.
• Advanced data collection, interpretation, and report writing skills are required.
• Material experience using LLM for automation and rapid workflow development.

Preferred Qualifications

The following qualifications are preferred, but not required:

• Experience with clinical-level drug development processes is preferred.
• Experiencing working with software developers is preferred.
• Ability to work on site in Lincoln, NE

Posted Salary Salary commensurate with education and experience