Research Associate

A postdoctoral position in computational single-cell and spatial omics is immediately available in the laboratory of Chen Cao in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. The research associate will lead analysis of high-dimensional single-cell and spatial datasets across two major research directions: cancer microenvironment biology and developmental/evolutionary genomics.

Projects include tumor cell-state transitions, tumor-immune-stromal interactions, spatial organization of tissues, developmental lineage dynamics, gene regulatory networks, and regulatory evolution. Datasets may include single-cell RNA-seq, single-cell ATAC-seq, multi-omics, and spatial transcriptomic or imaging-based data. The successful candidate will be expected not only to execute established pipelines, but also to develop biological questions from the data, interpret results critically, and drive analyses from raw data to publication.