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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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CDC Respiratory Virus Bioinformatics and Genomic Surveillance Fellowship Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in United States
Degree Level
Postdoc
Field of study
Computer Science
Funding
Monthly stipend range of $5,439 to $6,581; appointment initially for 1 year, renewable subject to recommendation and availability of funds.
Deadline
Dec 31, 2026
Country
United States
University
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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This CDC fellowship offers mentor-guided training in respiratory virus genomics, bioinformatics, data science, and scientific computing within the Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Viruses Division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia.
The fellow will work with genomic and laboratory data to strengthen respiratory virus surveillance, improve analytical reporting, and develop practical tools and infrastructure for laboratory scientists. The project environment is highly interdisciplinary, bringing together bioinformaticians, laboratorians, epidemiologists, data scientists, and other public health professionals.
Research activities may include analysis of respiratory virus sequence data and surveillance metadata, preparation of routine and ad hoc genomic surveillance reports, and summarizing lineage, clade, variant, mutation, temporal, and geographic trends. The fellow may also develop reproducible workflows for sequence quality control, genome assembly, variant identification, lineage assignment, and phylogenetic analysis.
Additional work may involve automating tables, figures, visualizations, and quality-control summaries; integrating genomic, laboratory, and epidemiologic data from multiple sources; developing or improving databases and analytical infrastructure; exploring distributed data-processing technologies; and building dashboards and applications for laboratory users. The opportunity also includes creating scripts, APIs, and other tools, testing and maintaining analytical pipelines, evaluating emerging bioinformatics tools and methods, and contributing to scientific presentations, technical documentation, posters, and manuscripts.
Projects are developed jointly by the mentor and fellow and may focus on automated genomic surveillance reporting, emerging variant analysis, laboratory dashboards, tools for querying and visualizing surveillance data, modernization of genomic databases, or scalable bioinformatics workflows for respiratory virus genomics.
The fellowship is mentored by Clint Paden at CDC and is embedded in a public health laboratory setting focused on respiratory virus genomics and surveillance.
Funding details
Monthly stipend range of $5,439 to $6,581; appointment initially for 1 year, renewable subject to recommendation and availability of funds.
What's required
Applicants should have received a master's or doctorate in a relevant field such as Bioinformatics, Data Science, Biostatistics, Microbiology, Virology, Molecular Biology, or another related scientific or quantitative discipline, and the degree must have been received within the past five years. Applicants should have experience in genomics, bioinformatics, or advanced statistical analyses. Preferred experience includes next-generation sequencing or genomic data analysis, viral genomics, infectious diseases or genomic epidemiology, programming in Python, R, Bash, SQL or another relevant language, Linux or Unix-based computing environments, reproducible bioinformatics workflows, sequence processing, genome assembly, variant analysis, lineage assignment, phylogenetics, analytical reporting, visualization or dashboard development, Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, cloud computing or high-performance computing, Git, software testing, code review, technical documentation, and translating scientific requirements into usable analytical tools. U.S. citizens only and minimum overall GPA 3.50.
How to apply
Scroll to the bottom of the opportunity and click APPLY. Submit the application, transcripts, current resume/CV, one recommendation, and a copy of an abstract or reprint of an article. Ensure all documents are in English or include an official English translation.
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