JOB POSTING INFORMATION
Position Type:	Professional Experience Year Co-op (PEY Co-op: 12-16 months)
Job Title:	Research assistantship
Job Location:	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Job Location Type:	Flexible
If working on site, can you provide a copy of your COVID-19 safety protocols?:	No
Number of Positions:	Multiple
Salary:	$57165.00 annually for 0.0 hours per week
Start Date:	05/06/2024
End Date:	08/29/2025
Job Function:	Research
Job Description:	The Wainberg lab (wainberglab.org) applies computational modeling to large datasets to learn how genetics causes brain diseases. Our overarching goal is to find new drug targets, while developing new ways to do genetic studies and extract meaning from them along the way. We are looking for students interested in developing machine learning models to infer causal genetic variants, genes and cell types for brain diseases. These models will leverage multiple sources of large-scale biological data, including the results of genetic studies (genome-wide association studies) on hundreds of thousands of people, information on how variants relate to genes and cell types (single-cell omics), and information on how genes relate to each other (biological networks). Other potential projects include performing the first-ever large-scale genetic studies of "functional disorders" like fibromyalgia across multiple nation-level genetic biobanks, and uncovering the contribution of exotic classes of genetic variants ("mutations") to Alzheimer's disease in the world's largest Alzheimer's whole-genome sequencing cohort.
Job Requirements:	Interested students should email their CV and unofficial transcript to Dr. Michael Wainberg (m.wainberg@utoronto.ca). Strong programming skills are a must!
Preferred Disciplines:	Computer Engineering Computer Science Engineering Science (Biomedical) Engineering Science (Electrical and Computer) Engineering Science (Machine Intelligence) Cell & Systems Biology Data Science Health Studies -Population Health Math & Stats Molecular Biology & Biotechnology Neuroscience
All Co-op programs:	No
Targeted Co-op Programs:	Targeted Programs Professional Experience Year Co-op (12 - 16 months)

APPLICATION INFORMATION
Application Deadline:	Oct 27, 2023 11:59 PM
Application Receipt Procedure:	Employer Email
If by eMail, send to:	m.wainberg@mail.utoronto.ca
Additional Application Information:	Note to PEY Co-op applicants: In addition to your application by email/website, please ensure that you select the “I intend to apply for this position” tab on the portal.  This will give us a record of your submitted application in the event that you will be invited for interviews.
U of T Job Coordinator:	Robin Kotisa

ORGANIZATION INFORMATION
Organization:	Wainberg Lab, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Division:	Wainberg Lab
Website:	wainberglab.org

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Length of Workterm:	FLEXIBLE PEY Co-op: 12-16 months (range)