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 Working with the support of a PhD student, your project will involve:
 ) Prediction of micro RNA (miRNA) targets on the basis of complementary sequence matches
 ) Correlation of miRNA and mRNA expression changes to identify genes that are regulated by miRNAs
 ) Conducting pathway analysis to determine which biological processes are controlled by miRNAs
 ) Construction of a miRNA/target interaction network to visualize predictions
 This work will contribute to a scientific manuscript on miRNA-mediated gene regulation in pokeweed during response to JA.
 Requirements:
 ) Pre-requisites as per EECS Calendar
 ) Facility with script-writing/modification (in Perl or Python)
 ) Preference for students with knowledge of statistics and familiarity with R programming
 ) Able to begin in September 2015
 Learning outcomes:
 ) Manipulate and analyze quantitative biological data
 ) Develop and test hypotheses by modifying existing software and writing new script
 ) Manage a CentOS computer server to store and facilitate ongoing research
 No knowledge of biology is required.
 For more information, please see:
  Hudak Lab website- http://hudak.lab.yorku.ca/
 RNA sequencing- http://www.illumina.com/applications/sequencing/rna.html
 miRNAs- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroRNA