Postdoc or Research Scientist in multi-omics

Postdoc or Research Scientist in multi-omics

Bonham Lab at Tufts Medical Center

Date Posted: Posted on 9 July 2025

Location: United States (US)

Salary: $65,000 - $90,000

Job Tags:

computational immunology, computational neuroscience, machine learning, microbiome, spatial multiomics

The newly created Bonham Lab at Tufts Medical Center in downtown Boston is seeking a highly motivated Postdoc, Research Software Engineer, or Research Scientist to lead independent one or more independent projects and help build the lab’s infrastructure.

The Bonham Lab will be positioned at the nexus of gut microbiome epidemiology (especially involving the gut brain axis in child development), immunology, and multi-‘omic and spatial data analysis.

Required Skills and Experience

PhD, MS + 3 years experience, or BS + 4 years experience in computational biology, biostatistics, microbiology, or related fields

Experience with data analysis and/or software development in Julia, python, or R

Familiarity with git version control and the unix command line

Self motivation and excitement to learn new skills or fields

Other relevant skills and experience

No applicant is expected to have all or even most of these skills, but if you do, they would be worth highlighting

Julia programing language

Multi’omics analysis, especially microbial metagenomics

Machine learning / deep learning frameworks

workflow languages (eg nextflow, snakemake)

HPC and/or cloud computing

spatial transcriptomics

software development best practices (eg test-driven development CI/CD)

Tagged as: Computer Science, Life Sciences