BACKGROUND

Bioinformatics and computational Biology is grown out of traditional fields of health informatics, biostatistics, molecular biology and genetics. Bioinformatics lab at Boise State university is currently engaged in an abroad area of biological and biomedical research including algorithm and database developments: 1) to comparatively analyze multiple mammalian genomes to understand molecular mechanisms underlying infectious bacterial diseases, resistance or immunity of chimpanzee to HIV/AID, malaria Alzheimer’s diseases and many other deadly human diseases, 2) to predict immunogenic epitopes (the part of a macromolecule that is recognized by the immune system, specifically by antibodies, B cells, or T cells) for vaccine development in west Nile virus and other infectious pathogens; 3) to develop tools to mine and visualize the biological data; 4) tools develop to analyze mass spectrum data.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Algorithm development for biological data analysis

REQUIREMENTS

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Biological and computation, related fields/equivalent training and experience

Good communication and writing skills

PREFERENCES

Basic knowledge of biology

TERMS

2-year MS program

LOCALE

Dept. of Computer Science, Boise State University, Boise, ID

COMPENSATION

$18,000 annual salary plus benefits

HOW TO APPLY

Dr. Yu at gongxinyu[at]boisestate.edu or 208 426 2314
or apply at http://www.boisestate.edu/gradcoll/0001.html

DEADLINE

Check Graduate sschool for due date