Primary Talent Partners has a 6-month W2 contract opporunity with our great pharma client.
Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder - No C2C/No Sponsorship.- Pay: $60-65/hr
- Location: St. Louis, MO or Remote
- Assignment Length: W2 contract through 03/02/2025 - extensions or conversion based on performance, budget, client needs.
Biological Data Scientist or Computational Biologist
Remote Role
Travel: Option to travel up to 10% of time to meet with group in St Louis or other sites
Manager is open to 4 or 5 day work schedule (flexible schedule)
DEPARTMENT/TEAM DESCRIPTION
This position will be hosted by Plant Biotechnology and is a part of a cross-functional project at the intersection of Plant Biotechnology, Biologics, and Active Ingredient Manufacturing. The primary function of the team is discovery of Client traits for crop protection.
POSITION SUMMARY
We are seeking a biological data analyst or computational biologist to characterize environmental microbial genomic information for metabolic pathways and modeling
POSITION DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
• Develop and implement workflows to characterize microbial metabolic pathways from individual genomes and from environmental metagenomes
• Model putative metabolic pathways as a function of environmental metadata to predict conditions for engineering and managing metabolic potential
• Develop and implement workflows to predict reactions of enzymes from microbial genomes and metagenomes with xenobiotics
• Collaborate virtually with interdisciplinary and geographically widespread team of scientists to manage data and to develop, implement, and document the workflows and models on remote computing infrastructure
• Independently prioritize, evaluate, implement, and troubleshoot approaches and tasks in pursuit of the desired outcomes
• Regularly and clearly communicate results, updates, questions, and troubleshooting steps effectively via written and oral methods to the rest of the team
• Clearly document results and processes for future use
REQUIREMENTS/PREFERENCES
Education Requirement(s):
• 7+ years experience, including graduate education (e.g. MS + 5 years, PhD + 1-2 years, etc.)
Skill & Competency Requirements:
• Five or more years using python and/or R and bash coding
• Demonstrated experience conducting scientific research using the products of DNA and/or RNA sequencing
• Demonstrated experience documenting results of research projects in oral presentations and peer-reviewed scientific publications
Preferences:
• Experience with metabolic pathway prediction, particularly with ModelSEED or similar programs
• Experience working with biochemistry and microbial biochemical transformations
• Experience analyzing the structure of microbial communities and factors influencing structure
• Experience working with COBRAToolbox or related python tools
• Experience working in AWS or other remote computing systems
This role may require on-location work with clients. Some clients may require employees and contractors coming on-site to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and/or to receive frequent negative COVID-19 testing.
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