Position title: PhD Student Research Opportunities in Amphibian and Fungal Genomics and Synthetic Biology
Employer: University of Melbourne
Closing date: 31-March-2022
Brief position description: Want to help save frogs declining from a pandemic disease?
Interested in studying functional genomics and using the latest methods in synthetic biology?
The One Health Research Group at the University of Melbourne is recruiting PhD students to investigate advantageous genetic traits against the disease chytridiomycosis and develop synthetic biology methods to increase disease resistance in declining frog species, and/or decrease virulence in the fungus. Our research includes a Genome Wide Association Study and developing RNA interference approaches.
The projects are funded through the Australian Research Council, and PhD scholars will be advised by Drs Lee Skerratt, Tiffany Kosch, Lee Berger and members of the One Health Research Group and collaborators including Zoos Victoria. The project will be based at the Melbourne Veterinary School at the Werribee campus.
Emerging infectious diseases are a major threat to ecosystems and new methods are needed to fight them. Chytridiomycosis is the most devastating disease of vertebrates, causing population declines in over 500 amphibian species worldwide. The project is focused on improving disease resilience in ecosystems using genetic approaches, but the specific aims of the PhD research can be determined by the student. The expected outcomes of the project are improved understanding and increased immunity of frogs to chytridiomycosis and restoration of frogs into the environment.
To be eligible,
Must be living in Australia. Sorry, we are not currently accepting applicants living overseas.
Expertise needed: Ideal applicants will have experience with molecular biological or biomedical research such as molecular and synthetic biology, microbiology, computational biology, animal breeding, genetics, or immunology. Skills or interest in genomics, population genetics, conservation genetics, disease ecology, HPC computing, statistical analyses, and animal husbandry are an advantage.
Scholarship applications are competitive – applicants must have first-class Honours, Master’s by research (1 year full-time) or equivalent and an excellent academic record. Peer reviewed publications are beneficial. Post Graduate Research Scholarships for stipends are available through University of Melbourne, for which the applicant will need to apply separately by the 30st of April.
The project will commence in mid 2022
Please submit a CV, cover letter, transcripts, and contact information for two referees to Dr Tiffany Kosch tiffany.kosch@unimelb.edu.au by 31 March 2022.
For more information about our research team please visit our websites:
Lab: blogs.unimelb.edu.au/one-health-research
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pg/onehealthresearchgroup
Twitter: twitter.com/OneHealthRes
AdLink:www.dropbox.com/s/s7f...f?dl=0
Job website: fvas.unimelb.edu.au/research/graduate-research
Contact name: Tiffany Kosch
Contact email: tiffany.kosch@unimelb.edu.au
Research Officer (Statistical Bioinformatics) @ VIC
Position title: Research Officer (Statistical Bioinformatics)
Employer: The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Closing date: 7 March 2022
Brief position description: An excellent opportunity is available for a Research Officer (Statistical Bioinformatics) to join the Bioinformatics Division at Australia’s pre-eminent biomedical research institute.
About the position
The Phipson lab works on both novel bioinformatics methods development and collaborative analysis projects with scientists within and external to the Institute. The role of the Research Officer is to work on statistical bioinformatics methods development and analysis from data generated from cutting-edge technologies including single cell assays. Specific projects may involve single cell transcriptomics, single cell ATAC-seq, spatial transcriptomics and single cell multi-omics. The successful candidate will be expected to conduct bioinformatics analyses, to develop bioinformatics methodology as appropriate and to work closely with collaborators in a multi-disciplinary team.
Selection Criteria
The successful candidate will have a doctoral qualification or equivalent in a quantitative discipline such as statistics, mathematics, computational biology or computer science. The candidate should have the ability to apply mathematical, statistical and computational principles to genomic problems. Experience with data analysis, programming and large datasets would be an advantage as would experience in R, Python, Unix and software development. Prior experience in bioinformatics and medical research would be an advantage but is not required. The candidate will be expected to have excellent organizational and time management skills, and a high level of interpersonal skills. More general selection criteria are listed in the position description.
Terms of appointment
This position is available for 2 years in a full time capacity. Consideration will be given for suitable applicants looking for a part-time position. Salary is Academic Level A6 – A8 (AUD $91,404 – $98,111). Up to 17% superannuation and very attractive salary packaging options are available.
General enquiries can be directed to Dr Belinda Phipson – phipson.b@wehi.edu.au
How to apply
Please apply by uploading your CV, cover letter and a document addressing the key selection criteria in pdf format.
Job website: http://wehi.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/broadbean_external/job/Parkville-Victoria-Australia/Research-Officer--Statistical-Bioinformatics-_JR631-2?source=seek_oz
Contact name: Belinda Phipson
Contact email: phipson.b@wehi.edu.au
Postdoctoral Research Associate @ NSW
Position title: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Employer: UNSW Sydney
Closing date: 17 March 2022
Brief position description: This position is funded by Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF – EPCDRI) for improving early-detection and diagnosis of liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma, HCC). The position duration is 12 months and is extendible subject to the satisfactory performance. The objective of this role includes, but not limited to, developing advance artificial intelligence (AI) and bioinformatics methods to individual clinical metadata, and extensive microbiome-based dataset to identify and validate HCC-specific microbial-derived metabolic/cytokine biomarker models for the early diagnosis of HCC.
The Research Associate will be primarily based at the ‘AI-empowered Biomedicine Laboratory’ (vafaeelab.com) at the School of BABS. The Lab is led by Dr Vafaee, Senior lecturer at the School of BABS, Deputy Director of UNSW Data Science Hub (uDASH), and ‘Health Data Science’ Theme Leader at uDASH. The Research Associate will collaboratively work with an interdisciplinary team of researchers and clinicians.
The Postdoctoral Research Associate will be part of a collaborative and friendly research team conducting cutting-edge research to positively impact society.
Job website: http://external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/506965/postdoctoral-research-associate
Contact name: Fatemeh Vafaee
Contact email: f.vafaee@unsw.edu.au
CRC Bioinformatics Research Officer @ WA
Position title: CRC Bioinformatics Research Officer
Employer: Murdoch University
Closing date: 10th March 2022
Brief position description: An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a Bioinformatics Research Officer to join the Centre for Computational & Systems Medicine (CCSM) at Murdoch University. This part of the Future Food System Cooperative Research Centre (FFS-CRC) project specifically aims to add value solutions to food industries in the State.
The position will drive new research activities that focuses on generating molecular phenotypes of premium food products unique to Western Australia. The overall aim is to connect nutritional quality and composition with health outcomes. The candidate will focus on the development and application of high-fidelity computational and statistical modelling pipelines for modelling metabolic phenotyping data generated from Western Australia premium food products.
Job website: https://www.seek.com.au/job/55963162
Contact name: Ruey Leng Loo
Contact email: rueyleng.loo@murdoch.edu.au
Scientist - Bioinformatician @ QLD
Position title: Scientist - Bioinformatician
Employer: Queensland Health
Closing date: 21/02/2022
Brief position description: We are seeking a Scientist - Bioinformatician to run, maintain and automate the tools and pipelines for the analysis of clinical next generation sequencing data, using both local and cloud based high performance computing resources.
Job website: http://smartjobs.qld.gov.au/jobtools/jncustomsearch.viewFullSingle?in_organid=14904&in_jnCounter=222292798&in_jobDate=All&in_searchbox=YES&in_site=Seek&in_summary=S
Contact name: Wishva Herath
Contact email: wishva.herath@health.qld.gov.au
Research officer @ VIC
Position title: Research officer
Employer: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI)
Closing date: 4 March 2022
Brief position description: The Davidson lab at WEHI are seeking a post doctoral researcher to join our bioinformatics lab. The role will focus on applying and/or developing novel bioinformatics methods to study the transcriptome in cancer, using data generated by contemporary and emerging transcriptome sequencing technologies, such as long reads.
The role of the Bioinformatics Research Officer is to contribute to and influence the laboratories research program with minimum supervision. To develop and apply mathematical, statistical and computer science principles and techniques to solve problems and to provide advice and mentoring to Research Assistants and students.
The appointee will be working under the supervision of Dr Nadia Davidson and will be joint appointed between the Blood Cell and Blood Cancer (BCBC) Division and Bioinformatics Division at WEHI.
Job website: https://wehi.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WEHI/job/Parkville-Victoria-Australia/Research-officer_JR587-1
Contact name: Nadia Davidson
Contact email: davidson.n@wehi.edu.au
Senior Data Scientist and Team Leader @ QLD
Position title: Senior Data Scientist and Team Leader
Employer: The University of Queensland
Closing date: 13/2/2022
Brief position description: The ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology is looking for a senior data scientist and team leader to drive our program in modelling microbial capture of greenhouse gasses (carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane). You will be part of a multinational team involving data scientists, engineers and biologist from academia and industry exploring the potential of various microbes and ways to engineer superior microbes and bioprocesses.
The focus of the data science team is the development of
(1) an advanced knowledgebase – the C1 Global Metabolic Atlas – that captures existing and emerging knowledge of microbial C1 metabolism (genomes, networks, thermokinetics), and
(2) a variety of data and mechanistic modelling frameworks used to explore large experimental data sets and to guide design of superior microbes and bioprocesses.
As a team leader, you will lead a small UQ based team of scientists, programmers and graduate students and coordinate the effort with collaborating teams in Denmark and USA.
Job website: https://uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcareers/job/St-Lucia-Campus/Senior-Data-Scientist-and-Team-Leader_R-04780-1
Contact name: Lars Nielsen
Contact email: lars.nielsen@uq.edu.au
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Data Science @ QLD
Position title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Data Science
Employer: The University of Queensland
Closing date: 13/2/2022
Brief position description: The ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our program in modelling microbial capture of greenhouse gasses (carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane). You will be part of a multinational team involving data scientists, engineers and biologist from academia and industry exploring the potential of various microbes and ways to engineer superior microbes and bioprocesses.
The focus of the data science team is the development of
(1) An advanced knowledgebase – the C1 Global Metabolic Atlas – that captures existing and emerging knowledge of microbial C1 metabolism (genomes, networks, thermokinetics), and
(2) A variety of data and mechanistic modelling frameworks used to explore large experimental data sets and to guide design of superior microbes and bioprocesses.
As a postdoctoral research fellow, you will contribute within your field of expertise to the overall progress of program, while working closely with colleagues at UQ and collaborating teams in Denmark and USA.
Job website: http://uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcareers/job/St-Lucia-Campus/Postdoctoral-Research-Fellow-in-Data-Science_R-04812
Contact name: Lars Nielsen
Contact email: lars.nielsen@uq.edu.au
Research Fellow - Bioinformatics @ VIC
Position title: Research Fellow - Bioinformatics
Employer: School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Closing date: 09 Feb 2022 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time
Brief position description:
Work type: Fixed Term
Location: Parkville
Division/Faculty: Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Department/School: School of Biomedical Sciences
Salary: $75,289 - $102,163 (Level A)
Role & Superannuation rate: Academic - Full time - 17% super
Founded in 1853, the University of Melbourne is Australia’s #1 university and is consistently ranked amongst the leading universities in the world. We are proud of our people, our commitment to research and teaching excellence, and our global engagement.
About the Department of Microbiology and Immunology
The Department of Microbiology & Immunology is one of the departments within the School of Biomedical Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.
Further information is available at http://www.microbiol.unimelb.edu.au/ and http://bsac.unimelb.edu.au/.
About the Role
The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) is internationally renowned for its cutting-edge studies of infectious diseases and immunity, as highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic. To support ongoing and new research activities at the Doherty Institute, a new Computational Sciences Initiative has been formed. This is to provide new resources for computational and data sciences, incorporating bioinformatics, biostatistics, infectious disease modelling and artificial intelligence.
As part of the Institute’s Computational Sciences Initiative, a Research Fellow is required to drive computational and statistical analysis of multi-omics datasets, applied to the areas of infectious diseases and immunology. The candidate will be self-motivated and develop a strong program of collaborative projects with other researchers in the Doherty Institute. This is anticipated to generate substantial new scientific discovery in areas spanning Immunology and Microbiology pursued in the institute. It will also facilitate the development of novel approaches in bioinformatics, particularly in the application of mathematical and computational techniques to analyse data from new and emerging ‘omic’ technologies, including genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. Talented, highly motivated, computer scientists with an interest in infection and immunity are encouraged to apply
About You
PhD in bioinformatics, statistivs, computer science or a related field
Demonstrated ability to communicate across teams and disciplines (biology and computer science), work as a member of a research team, and interact in a courteous, collaborative and effective manner with academic, administrative and support staff
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 organisation skills and accurate recording and analysis of data generated from research undertaken
Demonstrated experience in using initiative, working with minimal supervision and ability to prioritise tasks to achieve project objectives within timelines
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, demonstrated by presentation of research results at internal forums, conferences, and through manuscript submissions, inclusive of manuscripts posted to preprint servers
Experience in the following would be desirable: analysing single cell RNAseq datasets; integrating different high-dimensional datasets and multi-omics analyses; developing bioinformatics pipelines and/or software packages; cloud computing; machine learning or statistics; supervising students or research staff; and fundamental understanding and prior exposure to concepts in immunology and/or microbiology.
Benefits of Working with Us
In addition to having the opportunity to grow and be challenged, and to be part of a vibrant campus life, our people enjoy a range of rewarding benefits:
Flexible working arrangements and generous personal, parental and cultural leave
Competitive remuneration, 17% super, salary packaging and leave loading
Free and subsidised health and wellbeing services, and access to fitness and cultural clubs
Discounts on a wide range of products and services including Myki cards and Qantas Club
Career development opportunities and 25% off graduate courses for staff and their immediate families
To find out more, please visit https://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/staff-benefits.
Be Yourself
At UoM, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences and contributions that each person brings to our community, and we encourage and celebrate diversity. Indigenous Australians, those identifying as LGBTQIA+, females, people of all ages and culturally diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply for our roles. Our aim is to create a workforce that reflects the community in which we live.
Position Description: 0055073_Research Fellow, Bioinformatics_PD.pdf
Job website: https://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/907615/research-fellow-bioinformatics
Contact name: Dr Jan Schroeder
Contact email: jan.schroeder@unimelb.edu.au Please do not send your application to this contact
Clinical Genomics Scientist Australia
Position title: Clinical Genomics Scientist Australia
Employer: Invitae
Closing date: 31-03-2022
Brief position description: Location: Australia
Language requirements: English. Additional languages are a plus!
Start date: ASAP
Invitae is on a mission to drive genetic information into mainstream medicine to improve healthcare for billions of people.
To bolster our shared mission and help Invitae expand, we are looking for a Clinical Genomic Scientist. In this position, you will be curating, analyzing, interpreting, and reporting clinical genetic data derived from a variety of core technologies such as NGS panels, MPS exome sequencing, and chromosomal microarray among others.
A day in the life
Your typical day might include the following:
- Focusing up to 75% of your time on variant interpretation (aka variant curation), applying validated in-house genetic evidence systems, using these interpretations to build clear and concise clinical reports;
- Collaborating with our genetic pathologists, medical geneticists, genetic counselors, genomics scientists, bioinformaticians, quality managers, etc;
- Performing analyses of clinical and genetic information, including published literature, public and private databases, functional studies and modeling, as well as patient clinical records;
- Crafting, curating, and detailing genetic content for a broad range of genetic disorders to support our operations and clinical offerings.
This job might be for you if:
- You hold a FFSc, FHGSA/MHGSA, MD/MBBS, PhD or MSc in genetics, genetic counseling, or a related field. We encourage candidates with undergraduate degrees and relevant work experience to apply!
- You have developed skills in interpreting, synthesizing, and evaluating complex genetic information; Knowledge in variant interpretation (variant curation) is a plus;
- You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills;
- You are familiar with next-generation/massively-parallel sequencing or acquainted with sophisticated methods of copy number detection and have experience at a NATA-accredited diagnostic laboratory. This is valued, but not essential.
Job website: https://www.invitae.com/en
Contact name: Rosa Markus
Contact email: rosa.markus@invitae.com