Open Positions for Senior Lab Manager, Research Specialist, and Bioinformatics Specialist – Minn Lab, University of Pennsylvania

The Minn Lab (www.minnlab.org) seeks highly motivated applicants for Senior Lab Manager, Research Specialist A/B, and Bioinformatics Specialist positions. The research lab is focused on cancer and cancer immunotherapy and is involved in work that spans experimental laboratory studies with animal models to translational studies from human clinical trials.

For the lab manager position, we seek applicants with strong interpersonal, organizational, and experimental skills who are familiar with ensuring the smooth daily operations of an academic research laboratory. Besides a comprehensive skillset based on prior experience, eagerness to unlearn old approaches and learn new techniques, a willingness to step outside of comfort zones, and an unrelenting desire to continuously improve and modernize are essential. Another critical responsibility is to ensure high standards of professionalism and to promote a culture of support and teamwork so all in the lab can thrive.

For the Research Specialist A/B position, this individual will primarily assist senior personnel in executing laboratory-based experiments that include various in vitro and in vivo assays, experiments using mouse models, functional genomic screens, and high-dimensional cancer and immune cell profiling. Experience in data analysis and visualization using R and/or Python, and various Bioconductor pipelines is a plus. The candidate should be willing to work as part of a team, particularly in the beginning, but also individually in order to develop a high level of independence.

For the Bioinformatics Specialist, project goals will involve understanding disease mechanisms and/or efficacy of novel therapeutic approaches using both pre-clinical and clinical data. This individual will be primarily responsible for detailed data analysis of medium and large-scale data sets derived from functional genomic screens, various high-throughput sequencing methods, single-cell technologies, and other multi-ome assays. Familiarity with multiple programming languages such as R and Python, common analysis pipelines for genomics and/or single-cell data, databases, statistics and machine learning, and effective data visualization methods are a must. Some wet-lab experience is a plus.

Please contact andyminn@upenn.edu for more details.