Position title: Bioinformatics postdoc
Employer: St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research
Closing date: October 15th 2021
Brief position description: The DNA Repair and Recombination Laboratory is an established research group at SVI, focused on understanding the genetic control of DNA repair and recombination and the role that these processes play in inheritance and oncofertility. We are seeking a bioinformatician who loves what they do and who wants to work closely with wetlab researchers. You will be a key member of the team for all experimental stages from planning through to data analysis. You will be a self-motivated researcher with a PhD, first author publications and trained in bioinformatics and genomics, statistics, computation and reproducible analyses. The role will be a mixture of semi-autonomous research and providing support as required to the wetlab part of the team. You will have the opportunity to develop your own research projects by negotiation.
To address our biological questions, we use a number of tools that produce large datasets which includes: bulk high-throughput sequencing of genomic DNA, single-cell sequencing of genomic DNA, immunofluorescence microscopy, whole animal phenotyping from pedigrees, and other cell-based phenotypic datasets. The team is specifically interested in performing discovery research and identifying and characterising phenotypes which in turn improves our understanding of our biological interests.
Having a diverse workforce that represents the global and Australian community is very important to our team and we actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people with disabilities, from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ people, and all genders.
Please apply using the specific instructions on the Seek job ad.
Job website: http://www.seek.com.au/job/54189979?type=promoted#searchRequestToken=c6d6e91f-7ecf-4c20-b1c6-d0b371ae097e
Contact name: Wayne Crismani
Contact email: wcrismani@svi.edu.au
Research Assistant @ QLD
Position title: Research Assistant
Employer: The University of Queensland
Closing date: 8 October 2021
Brief position description: About This Opportunity
The Mowry Lab seeks an experienced Research Assistant with a background in Bioinformatics, Statistical Genetics, or a related field. The individual will be responsible for conducting sample and genetic variant quality control in genotyping and sequencing studies, developing and executing bioinformatics pipelines using high-performance computing clusters, and developing, deploying and managing research software for the proposed lab’s web portal.
Our Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will demonstrate computer programming experience and experience using Bioinformatics applications. They will also possess a Bachelors or Masters in Bioinformatics or related fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics or Statistics. Other desirable experience and skills include the following:
Experience in Machine/Deep learning
Experience in Statistical/population genetics
Experience in Next-generation sequence analysis
Experience in using Linux operating systems and cluster computing for analysing scientific data
Experience in programming using shell scripts, R, Python or JAVA
Experience in releasing opensource software (R or python packages for genomic data analysis)
Knowledge of Systems Biology
For application queries, please contact recruitment@uq.edu.au stating the job number in the subject line.
Please apply online via the job website.
Job website: http://search.careers.uq.edu.au/caw/en/job/516231/research-assistant
Contact name: Sathish Periyasamy
Contact email: s.periyasamy@uq.edu.au
Bioinformatics Research Officer: Large-scale cancer omics and methods development @ VIC
Position title: Bioinformatics Research Officer: Large-scale cancer omics and methods development
Employer: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Closing date: 18 October 2021
Brief position description: Job Description
An exciting new opportunity exists for a talented and motivated bioinformatics researcher to join our research team to develop bioinformatics methods and apply them to large-scale cancer genomics and other omics data from rare cancer, prostate cancer and melanoma.
About the position
The position will involve developing novel analytical methods for sequence data, including new technologies like long reads, and using these data to contribute to new insights into mutational processes in cancer.
The successful candidate(s) will join a dynamic team of computational scientists in a supportive and flexible working environment. They will be encouraged to develop new research directions that complement existing themes within the lab and have the opportunity to establish and contribute to collaborative research projects and to gain supervision experience.
Selection Criteria
The successful candidate(s) will have a PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Bioinformatics or Computational Biology, strong computational and programming skills, experience developing new algorithms, some familiarity with machine learning, and a keen interest in cancer.
Job website: https://wehi.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WEHI/job/Parkville-Victoria-Australia/Bioinformatics-Research-Officer--Large-scale-cancer-omics-and-methods-development_JR0000229-1
Contact name: Tony Papenfuss
Contact email: papenfuss@wehi.edu.au
Scientific programmer @ ACT
Position title: Scientific programmer
Employer: The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University
Closing date: 30/09/2021
Brief position description: The Scientific Programmer will work on the improvements and extensions of scientific software tools in Eyras’ lab (https://github.com/comprna), and in particular, of RATTLE (https://github.com/comprna/RATTLE), for the reference-free reconstruction of transcriptomes from long-read sequencing, and SUPPA (https://github.com/comprna/SUPPA), for the study of differential splicing across multiple conditions. The position provides the opportunity to learn about the applications of these tools to study transcriptomes in the context of the projects being carried out in the lab. Further responsibilities involve helping in the compilation and running of the code in the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), developing unit tests and tests with experimental datasets, regular reporting of the technical issues and progress back to the supervisor.
The University actively encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. For more information on employment opportunities, contact our Indigenous Employment Consultant via: indigenous.employment@anu.edu.au
ANU values diversity and inclusion and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to those of all backgrounds and identities. For more information about staff equity at ANU, visit https://services.anu.edu.au/human-resources/respect-inclusion
Job website: http://jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/542075/technical-officer-programmer
Contact name: Eduardo Eyras
Contact email: eduardo.eyras@anu.edu.au
Senior Research Scientist in Computational Biology @ ACT
Position title: Senior Research Scientist in Computational Biology
Employer: CSIRO
Closing date: 21st September 2021
Brief position description: We are seeking a motivated Senior Research Scientist – Computational Biology to join the Traits Program within CSIRO Agriculture and Food. The research this program is undertaking is increasingly involving complex machine learning and computational approaches to address biological problems at scale and deliver outcomes with industry impact.
As the successful candidate, you will contribute to this evolving digital transformation through engagement across a variety of project areas including host-microbe interactions and protein engineering. Using your skills and expertise in computational biology and fostering collaborations with internal and external stakeholders, you will address novel bioinformatic challenges and complex or ill-defined biological questions, and develop new research areas facilitated by data analytics, modelling and machine learning tools.
This role is offered on a full-time or part-time (minimum 0.8 FTE) basis.
Location: Canberra (Black Mountain) ACT
Salary: AU$115k – AU$135k (pro-rata for part-time) plus up to 15.4% superannuation
Tenure: Indefinite
Reference: 76770
For full details about the role, including a link to the position description, please view the advert on CSIRO's website.
Job website: http://jobs.csiro.au/job/Canberra%2C-ACT-Senior-Research-Scientist-in-Computational-Biology/786771200/
Contact name: Melania Figueroa
Contact email: melania.figueroa@csiro.au
Research Scientist – Human Gut Microbiome @ NSW
Position title: Research Scientist – Human Gut Microbiome
Employer: CSIRO
Closing date: 3rd October 2021
Brief position description: CSIRO Health and Biosecurity is seeking a motivated Research Scientist to join the Microbiomes for One Systems Health - Future Science Platform (FSP). The FSPs address new scientific challenges for Australia.
In this role, you will use your gut microbiology capabilities to define critical elements of the human gut microbiome and their metabolic products that are important for maintaining health or predicting disease states. This will include will applying current and emerging statistical, bioinformatic and modelling methods to the analysis of complex data. The research will contribute to the ultimate goal of constructing a working model of the ideal human gut microbiome which will lead to long-term health benefits for Australian and global communities.
The Microbiome FSP is developing new understanding of microbiome connectivity across the environment to human continuum and how system perturbations impact on microbiome functionality, diversity and systems health. A key objective is to capture greater benefit from microbiome interactions through more informative and predictive frameworks for functionality and by targeted interventions.
Location: Adelaide, SA or Sydney, NSW
Salary: AU$100k – AU$108k plus up to 15.4% superannuation
Tenure: Specified term of up to 3 years
Reference: 76412
Full details about this role, including a link to the position description, can be found on the advert on CSIRO's website
Job website: http://jobs.csiro.au/job/Sydney%2C-NSW-Research-Scientist-Human-Gut-Microbiome/785728500/
Contact name: Kim Fung
Contact email: kim.fung@csiro.au
Head of Research Computing Platform @ VIC
Position title: Head of Research Computing Platform
Employer: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Closing date: 30/9/2021
Brief position description: An exciting opportunity is now available for a leader in scientific computing to become the Head of the WEHI Research Computing Platform within the Computational Biology Theme.
The role will be responsible to build on existing capabilities and support the world-class computational research at WEHI. The role will work closely with the Computational Biology Theme Leader, Chief Information Officer and Head of ITS Research Systems. It will involve engaging and collaborating with the outstanding computational and biomedical researchers at WEHI to help understand current and future needs and support their biomedical research. The vision is to drive the on-going development of advanced computing use at WEHI by delivering innovative, effective and scalable solutions that enable collaborative, flexible, reproducible, compute-intensive research while enforcing appropriate standards of data integrity, security, privacy and access.
Job website: http://www.wehi.edu.au/research-computing-platform-head
Contact name: Tony Papenfuss
Contact email: papenfuss@wehi.edu.au
Bioinformatics Support Engineer @ Australia
Position title: Bioinformatics Support Engineer - Australia
Employer: Agilent
Closing date: 30 Sep 2021
Brief position description: Agilent inspires and supports discoveries that advance the quality of life. We provide life science, diagnostic and applied market laboratories worldwide with instruments, services, consumables, applications and expertise. Agilent enables customers to gain the answers and insights they seek - so they can do what they do best: improve the world around us. Information about Agilent is available at www.agilent.com.
We’re looking for a highly motivated bioinformatics scientist to join our remote Genomics Support team to help provide customer support on Agilent’s NGS analysis tools, including the Alissa Clinical Informatics platform.
This platform streamlines data analysis and variant assessment workflows-providing outstanding support from raw reads to draft reports, reducing workflow complexity and time.
As a Bioinformatics Support Engineer, you will assist customers with secondary and tertiary NGS analysis to efficiently prioritize, curate and report genomic variants.
This role serves as customer contact on technical and troubleshooting cases. Support will include clinical customers and may deliver customer training/demos via WebEx. Works closely with sales, FAS, marketing, and R&D teams.
Provide online technical support to customers via phone and email
Efficiently troubleshoot and resolve customer’s technical inquiries
Provide customer facing NGS data analysis support for Agilent Genomics customers
Logs tickets in Tech Support CRM; work closely with Informatics Support, R&D Teams
Work with external customers such as bioinformatics, clinical genetics, laboratory scientists
Fixing data analysis files
Visualizing and assessing specific genetic variants and analyzing NGS data
Analyzing results from NGS assays
For more information about the role see Job Website.
Job website: http://recruiting.adp.com/srccar/public/RTI.home?c=2167807&d=External&r=5000752269406&_fromPublish=true#/
Contact name: Lindsay Collinson
Contact email: lindsay.collinson@agilent.com
Research Assistant @ VIC
Position title: Research Assistant
Employer: Federation University Australia
Closing date: 10 September 2021
Brief position description: Work as research assistant for few months. The ideal candidate should have background in computer science (data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning) and sound understanding of biology (genetic networks, protein structures, drug re-purposing etc.). The candidate will conduct literature review, propose new concepts/methodologies for problem solving and involved in writing grant applications, research proposals, and write review papers.
Job website:
Contact name: Madhu Chetty
Contact email: madhu.chetty@federation.edu.au
Postdoctoral Researcher @ SA
Position title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Employer: Flinders University
Closing date: 9/9/21
Brief position description: The Flinders Accelerator for Microbiome Exploration, FAME, is a new interdisciplinary research group at Flinders University with the mission of expanding access to microbiome and metagenomics approaches to accelerate the development of microbiome research across the biosphere!
As part of the Accelerator, the Research Associate in Bioinformatics will analyse viral genomics and metagenomics data from patients with Irritable Bowl Disease and associated control samples. This ongoing challenge requires talented, creative individuals to generate novel approaches to data mining. The Post-Doctoral researcher will advance our understanding of IBD by using viral genomics and metagenomics and leveraging experimental data to develop novel software packages to analyse these complex datasets. You will write and release code for ‘omics analysis using the latest breakthroughs in biology, machine learning, data science, and computer science.
You will develop cutting-edge approaches to explore complex datasets and interact with researchers to implement these approaches across the entire microbial spectrum, from phages and viruses associated with IBD.
Job website: http://flinders.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/flinders_employment/job/Bedford-Park/Research-Associate-in-Bioinformatics_JR0000002072
Contact name: Robert Edwards
Contact email: robert.edwards@flinders.edu.au