TA ad for STAT 540 – Term 2 (Jan – April 2014)‏

Please let me know if you are interested in TA-ing this course, please contact Jenny Bryan (email at bottom of ad)

Professors Jenny Bryan (JB, course coordinator), Gabriela Cohen-Freue,
and Paul Pavlidis are seeking teaching assistants for STAT 540,
cross-listed as BIOF 540 and GSAT 540, for January - April 2014.

Information on the course can be found at this URL, with key facts
stated below: http://www.stat.ubc.ca/~jenny/teach/STAT540/

STAT 540 Statistical methods for high dimensional biology, 3 credits
Instructors: Jennifer Bryan, Gabriela Cohen-Freue and Paul Pavlidis
TA(s): TBA
06 January 2014 - 08 April 2014
Lecture Mon Wed 9:30 - 11am in ESB 4192
Computing seminar / office hours 11am - 1pm Wed in ESB 1042

TA job Description ---------------

Qualifications: Ideally you will have taken STAT 540 or have
equivalent experience. You should be sufficiently knowledgeable to
help students with basic statistics, R and biology domain questions
that will arise, with more weight on the first two. To a certain
extent, we can support the students through the combined strengths of
the 2 TAs, so it is OK to be stronger in some area(s) than others. We
make heavy use of R, the RStudio IDE, R markdown, the knitr R package,
pandoc, and git(hub), so you should be experienced with and/or super
keen to learn about these things.

Experience with next-generation sequencing data would be a real plus,
as would experience with methylation or epigentic data.

Responsibilities during Jan - Apr 2013:
- Attend (almost) all lectures
- Improve/modify computing seminar material, as needed
- Supervise computing seminars
- Improve/modify the homework assignments, as needed
- Monitor student questions and contributions to the Google group
- Mark the homework assignments
- Assist the instructors with guiding and marking group projects
- Help maintain the course web site

Time commitment: Quoting from the Quick Reference Guide to the CUPE
2278 Collective Agreement: "A full TAship ... means 192 hours per
term." This means that a full TAship averages out to about 12 hours
per week (192 hours / 16 weeks = 12).

Pay: The info JB is quoting from may be outdated (sorry) but pay for
the term is around $5,600.

Interested students should contact Jenny directly at
jenny@stat.ubc.ca; please include a resume (casual inquiries are also
welcome). It is usually wise to chat with your research supervisor, if
applicable, and see if s/he is supportive.