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**Job Description**
**The Mzoughi Lab**
Our lab focuses on understanding the epigenetic mechanisms driving phenotypic heterogeneity and plasticity in cancer.
Using cutting-edge multiomics technologies and lineage tracing, we **ONCOPLASTICITY** Mzoughi lab explore how tumor cells evolve and adapt during disease progression and under therapeutic pressures.
We are seeking a highly motivated **Post-Doctoral Researcher/Scientist** with a **strong computational biology background** to join our team.
The successful candidate will apply and develop computational tools to analyze large-scale omics datasets, including bulk and single-cell RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, and CUT&Tag, and will contribute to studies elucidating tumor plasticity mechanisms.
Experience in lineage tracing and single-cell data analysis is strongly preferred.
**Qualifications**
+ PhD in Biological Sciences or related field
+ Two years experience
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ Proficiency in programming languages such as R and Python, with demonstrated experience in analyzing high-dimensional biological datasets.
+ Experience with computational tools and packages for multiomics data analysis (e.g., Seurat, Monocle, edgeR, DESeq2, ArchR).
+ Familiarity with lineage tracing analysis methods and software is highly desirable.
+ Strong skills in statistical modeling, data visualization, and interpretation of biological findings
• Familiarity with high-performance computing environments and version control systems (e.g., Git).
+ Experience in analyzing single-cell epigenomics and transcriptomics datasets (e.g., single-cell RNA-seq and ATAC-seq).
+ Knowledge of machine learning techniques for biological data analysis.
+ Strong publication record in peer-reviewed journals.
**Responsibilities**
+ Analyze bulk and single-cell RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, and CUT&Tag datasets.
+ Develop and optimize pipelines for integrating and interpreting multiomics data.
+ Collaborate with both wet-lab and other dry-lab team members to generate hypotheses and refine experimental designs.
+ Analyze lineage tracing datasets to uncover dynamic cellular transitions and clonal evolution.
+ Present findings in lab meetings, conferences, and manuscripts.
**About Us**
**Strength through Unity and Inclusion**
The Mount Sinai Health System is committed to fostering an environment where everyone can contribute to excellence.
We share a common dedication to delivering outstanding patient care.
When you join us, you become part of Mount Sinai’s unparalleled legacy of achievement, education, and innovation as we work together to transform healthcare.
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We strive to create an environment where collaboration, fairness, and continuous learning drive positive change, improving the well-being of our staff, patients, and organization.
Our leaders are expected to challenge outdated practices, promote a culture of respect, and work toward meaningful improvements that enhance patient care and workplace experiences.
We are dedicated to building a supportive and welcoming environment where everyone has the opportunity to thrive and advance professionally.
Explore this opportunity and be part of the next chapter in our history.
**About the Mount Sinai Health System:**
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education.
Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.
Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment.
The Health System includes more than 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers.
We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high Honor Roll status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics, top 5 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, and top 20 in Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology.
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology.
U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties.
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 11 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.
**Equal Opportunity Employer**
The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer, complying with all applicable federal civil rights laws.
We do not discriminate, exclude, or treat individuals differently based on race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
We are deeply committed to fostering an environment where all faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve feel respected and supported.
Our goal is to create a healthcare and learning institution that actively works to remove barriers, address challenges, and promote fairness in all aspects of our organization.
**Compensation Statement**
Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements.
The salary range for the role is $58661 - $109199.95 Annually.
Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need.
The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.
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