Lead Bioinformatics Scientist - Multi-Omics & Nutrition

Texas A&M AgriLife Research; College Station (TX); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid holidays

Retirement plan

Job summary

Texas A&M AgriLife Research’s Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture-Precision Nutrition seeks a Research Specialist in Bioinformatics to lead analyses of large-scale multi-omics data from animal models and human studies. The role focuses on data integration, method development, and collaborative biomedical insights.

The candidate will mentor trainees, contribute to publications and grants, and work within a multidisciplinary team to explore nutrition, metabolism, immunity, aging,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Eight years of related experience.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing next-generation sequencing data.
• Proficiency in R, Python, Linux/Unix, and statistical analysis.
• Experience with microbiome, transcriptomics, proteomics, or metabolomics datasets.
• Strong publication record and excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes and interprets high-throughput sequencing and omics datasets, including microbiome, RNA sequencing, spatial transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and multi-omics integration analyses.
• Develops and maintains bioinformatics pipelines for data processing and quality control.
• Collaborates with biologists, nutrition scientists, and clinicians to generate biological insights from complex datasets.
• Prepares figures, reports, manuscripts, and grant applications.
• Mentors graduate students and other trainees in computational biology approaches.
• Contributes to the development of innovative analytical methods and research directions.

Skills

Bioinformatics

Multi-omics analysis

Data analysis

NGS data analysis

R

Python

Statistics

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's or Ph.D. in related field

Tools

R

Python

Linux/Unix

HPC

Job description

Texas A&M AgriLife Research’s Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture-Precision Nutrition seeks a Research Specialist in Bioinformatics to lead analyses of large-scale multi-omics data from animal models and human studies. The role focuses on data integration, method development, and collaborative biomedical insights.

The candidate will mentor trainees, contribute to publications and grants, and work within a multidisciplinary team to explore nutrition, metabolism, immunity, aging,