21 Jan 2025

Graduate Research Assistant (Environmental / Molecular Epidemiology)

  • Part Time
  • Anywhere

The UH Mānoa Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health is looking for an graduate research assistant with computational experience / interest in R to work on an environmental health project (role of placental in PFAS-related adverse pregnancy outcomes) with very exciting data and opportunities to publish.

Position Number: 0000GA11

http://workatuh.hawaii.edu/

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Under the supervision of the Principal Investigator and collaborators, perform data management, cleaning, and analyses on a Federally-funded study on the effects of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) exposure on placental gene expression (RNA-Seq), as a mechanism for environmental health disparities within a prospective birth cohort

2. Assist with data QI/QC and merging using R/Rstudio (Bioconductor, etc.)

3. Develop pipelines for data analyses and conduct descriptive and analytic statistics

4. Keep a notebook of work conducted (Rmarkdown, Quarto, etc.)

5. Assist in manuscript writing

6. Prepare presentations for internal and external meetings and conferences

7. Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

  1. Be classified as a degree-seeking student in a Masters or PhD program under UHM Graduate Division,
  2. Be in good academic standing and maintain a GPA of 3.0 or above,
  3. Maintain 6 credits per semester with the exception of those who have reached 800 (dissertation) or 700F (thesis)
  4. Some knowledge of environmental health and/or molecular genetics
  5. Experience with quantitative data analyses and documentation
  6. Proficient in R/RStudio

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