Alan Moses

The Department of Cell & Systems Biology at the University of Toronto is seeking a Research Associate for a two-year limited-term appointment in the Moses Lab, led by Professor Alan Moses . The position is centered on computational biology and the study of how genetic regulatory networks are encoded in genome sequences and how they evolve. A major focus of the lab’s work is intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs) , including their role in protein regulation and sequence-to-function relationships. The successful candidate will contribute to ongoing projects in the lab and take a leadership role in research activities. The work described includes the development and execution of high-throughput assays for IDR function, analysis of biological datasets, and support for research directions that connect protein sequence with function. The Moses Lab has recently developed a systematic functional map of human IDRs, applied protein language models to segment functional regions in the human proteome, and created IDR design software called FAIDR-Desi. The role is embedded in this active research environment in the Department of Cell & Systems Biology at the St. George campus in downtown Toronto. The Research Associate will also contribute to supervising students and to research writing activities within the lab.