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Follow your passion: Roche NimbleGen, Inc., a Madison, Wisconsin based growing leader in the life science industry is adding Post Doctoral Fellows in a variety of disciplines. These are one year appointments, and involve working under the direction of Senior Scientists and Directors in our Research and Development department. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity, and on seeing each other’s differences as an advantage. Roche has ambitious plans to keep learning and growing – and is seeking people who have the same goals for themselves.

The Position:
The Fellows will join Roche NimbleGen’s research and development group. The individuals in these roles may participate in interdisciplinary projects with Roche’s Pharmaceutical Division, as well as projects focusing on the development of high profile applications of our microarray platforms. Successful completion of the key projects will advance RNG’s R&D efforts, identify and develop new microarray applications, and foster adoption of RNG technology within Roche, its affiliates and the larger research community.

These roles will provide opportunities to work in an industry setting in areas including:

• Sequence Capture
• Expression
• Methylation
• ChIP-chip
• Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH)
• Copy Number Variation (CNV)

• Ph.D. in life sciences
• Advanced understanding of the research literature, concepts and methods related to microarrays (cellular biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, and bioinformatics).
• Advanced knowledge of the quantitative and qualitative methods related to microarray research.
• Capabilities related to authoring and/or co-authoring of research-based reports/articles.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively within an R&D environment and throughout the organization.
• Basic knowledge related to methods and tools related to microarray analysis desired, advanced skills are preferred.

Roche NimbleGen, Inc. develops DNA microarray and chemistry technologies, providing the highest density arrays available in the industry in a fraction of the time of conventional microarrays. The company's patented Maskless Array Synthesizer (MAS) technology provides highly customized oligonucleotide array design, manufacture, hybridization, and analysis services to researchers in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, government and universities. NimbleGen's products and services aid researchers in high-throughput, low-cost screening for genotyping, gene expression analysis and toxicity screenings.