Employer: The University of Melbourne - Doherty Institute
Closing date: 11 March 2023
Brief position description: An exciting opportunity is available for a PhD qualified Bioinformatician to join the Computational Sciences Initiative at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity.
About the Role
The role is to deliver projects supervised by Dr Jan Schroeder within the Institute’s Computational Sciences Initiative (CSI). The successful candidate will collaborate with other research groups and develop bioinformatics projects to support ongoing and new research in the areas of infectious diseases and immunology. The Research Officer will drive computational analysis of multiomic datasets, with a focus on bulk, single-cell and spatial omic data, data integration, and use of machine learning approaches to analyse multiomic datasets.
Responsibilities include:
* Assist the development of a strong program of collaborative research with other groups at the Doherty Institute in bioinformatics.
* Develop new methods and software packages for analysis of genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic sequence data where appropriate.
* Develop and apply machine learning approaches to analyse multiomics datasets.
* Be responsible for qualitative and statistical analysis of research data and to communicate this information to collaborators.
About You
* Completion of a PhD in bioinformatics, computer science or a related field.
* Experience in running bioinformatics workflows on high-performance computing clusters.
* Experience in analysis of high-dimensional datasets, ideally those arising from high-throughput molecular assays.
* Strong ability to communicate across teams and disciplines (computer science and biology), and work as a member of a research team.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills, demonstrated by presentation of research results at internal forums, conferences, and through manuscript submissions.
* Demonstrated experience in using initiative, working with minimal supervision and ability to prioritise tasks to achieve project objectives within timelines.
Please see the website below for more information, the position description and application details.
Job website: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/911744/research-officer-bioinformatics
Contact name: Jan Schroeder
Contact email: jan.schroeder@unimelb.edu.au