Position title: Senior Research Officer (Bioinformatician)
Employer: Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Closing date: 30 July 2020
Brief position description: We are looking for a Senior Research Officer (Bioinformatician) to join the Translational Bioinformatics group. A key part of your role will be working on the Rare Diseases Now (RDNow) Program. This program is aimed to expand the successful Undiagnosed Diseases Program Victoria (UDP-Vic) utilising a multi-faceted approach to reach a diagnosis in individuals who remain unsolved after clinical exome sequencing.
In this role you will drive the integrated analysis of genomic data to identify the genetic cause of disease in those patients. You will liaise with the clinical and laboratory diagnostic teams and the functional genomic research teams as well as the extended MCRI organisation, and therefore it is essential you have excellent communication and engagement skills.With these teams you will drive clinical and research genomic sequencing data and the identification of candidate novel disease-causing variants. To be successful in this role you will have demonstrated your ability to drive and implement key program objectives.
You will be an experienced Bioinformatician with a deep understanding of Mendelian disorders and the underlying genetic and biological concepts that cause them. You will have demonstrated experience in the analysis and interpretation of next-generation sequence data.
You will be ready to contribute to an innovative program to improve the future of children’s health.
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Contact name: Cas Simons
Contact email: cas.simons@mcri.edu.au