Metabolomics Core Team Lead

Metabolomics Core Team Lead

We seek a Metabolomics Core Team Lead for the Duchossois Family Institute Microbiome Metabolomics (DFIMM) facility at the University of Chicago. This individual would have a leadership position within the DFI, reporting to the DFI Metabolomics Director, and with their primary role managing the day-to-day metabolomics core workflow for targeted metabolomic projects and long-term quality control processes. Routinely this role requires project status management, sample processing, instrumentation assessment and maintenance, laboratory safety assessment, waste management, and routine maintenance on other equipment. Additionally, the role will be responsible for data analysis and data quality control from gas chromatography and liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC- and LC-MS) instrumentation for targeted metabolomic projects. Long-term, this role is responsible for assessing and working with the Director to ensure high quality control on all targeted and untargeted metabolomic projects.

Responsibilities include managing daily maintenance and troubleshooting of laboratory equipment and instruments, overseeing both short-term and long-term procurement of laboratory supplies, developing, implementing, and maintaining waste management plans for reagents, solvents, and other laboratory materials, preparing and validating extraction solvents for use in targeted and untargeted analytical pipelines, auditing the project submission pipeline (LIMS) and collaborating with the Platform Director to prioritize and schedule project analyses, performing analysis of quantitative and normalized relative abundance data for targeted projects using GC and LC-based methodologies, providing supervisory leadership, including training and mentoring laboratory staff, assisting in the development of laboratory policies and procedures, and conducting risk assessments and risk management, using subject matter and best practices knowledge to perform lab and/or research-related duties and tasks, solving complex problems relating to the administration of projects, including planning new procedures, adapting existing procedures to the needs of the project, and making significant contributions to methodology, guiding data collection, evaluation and analysis, designing and managing databases, writing reports, articles and manuscripts, presenting research findings at meetings and conferences, as well as to funding agencies, conducting literature reviews, developing and maintaining liaisons and effective working relations with groups and individuals, agencies, and the public to encourage cooperative management strategies or to develop information and interpret findings, and performing other related work as needed.