Position title: Bioinformatics Research Fellow
Employer: SA Health
Closing date: 17/7/2020
Brief position description: Bioinformatics Research Fellow (Research Level GFSc2)
• Based in the Centre for Cancer Biology (CCB)
• Full-time, bioinformatics/genome analysis vacancy of 1-year fixed term contract
• Total Indicative Renumeration: GFSc2, $92,017-$105,461 per annum
About the Job
For this position, we are seeking a bioinformatician to work jointly on the analysis of diverse NGS data with research groups throughout the CCB. You will implement and conduct high quality scientific research and report on research outcomes in line with research goals and milestones of the individual laboratories. Data types that will be encountered originate from DNA-Seq, coding and non-coding RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, HITS-CLIP, ATAC-Seq, single cell sequencing among others. You will be working both with short read Illumina and long read data.
About us
The Centre for Cancer Biology is an alliance between the University of South Australia and SA Pathology and boasts the largest concentration of fundamental cancer research in the state. Research groups within the CCB use Next Generation Sequencing and other high throughput technologies to study the fundamental causes of cancer and to find new ways to prevent and treat disease. Members of a large team of bioinformaticians work together with CCB researchers to analyse and interpret the resultant data.
The bioinformatics group of the CCB is located within the ACRF SA Cancer Genomics Facility as well as the CCB’s new laboratories in the Adelaide’s BioMed City. It is the largest biomedical bioinformatics group in South Australia, consisting of approx. 15 staff members and students. Group members are physically co-located but are employed through, and work with, individual CCB research groups, the Genomics Facility or SA Pathology’s diagnostic arm.
Skills and Experience
• To be eligible, you will have a post-graduate qualification in bioinformatics and/or statistics and/or computational science or related disciplines.
• You will also have competency in recording, analysing, presenting and disseminating research to stakeholders including the preparation of papers for high quality publications or posters for conference presentations - amongst other criteria as listed in the position description.
• To be successful, you will have high level of interpersonal, communications and organisational skills along with knowledge of scientific terminology relevant to the research projects.
Application
Applications for this position must be lodged through https://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/careers (Job ID: 729725) and the application deadline is 17/07/2020.
Job website: http://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/careers
Contact name: Andreas Schreiber
Contact email: andreas.schreiber@sa.gov.au