Position title: Bioinformatics Research Officer
Employer: University of Sydney
Closing date: 31 March 2021
Brief position description: The Bioinformatics Research Officer will join the newly established Ancestry & Health Genomics Laboratory at the Charles Perkins Centre, as an active research member of the University of Sydney’s School of Medical Sciences (SoMS), while working closely with his/her lab affiliates at the Laboratory for Human Comparative and Prostate Cancer Genomics located at The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, as part of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research.
This newly funded project is aimed at identifying mutational signatures of persistent endocrine disrupting pollutants driving aggressive prostate cancer. The project is prefaced on the hypothesis that environmental carcinogens have left an ‘exposure record’ identifiable as mutational signatures (patterns of genomic variation) in the genomes of exposed tumours. The aim, to use genome profiling and multi-omic synergistic interrogation, to identify a carcinogenic agent driving global disparities in aggressive prostate cancer.
The Bioinformatics Research Officer will focus on the implementation and development of statistical/computational tools to analyse next-generation sequencing (NGS) data to identify somatic variations associated with prostate cancer outcomes, global health disparity and carcinogenic drivers. You will be responsible for the analyses of cancer genome samples sequenced for the purposes of this project. This includes the maintenance, benchmarking, and continuous improvement of our analysis pipelines, as well as participation in the downstream analyses and interpretation, presentation and publications. The successful candidate will apply and implement various tools and algorithms to analyse cancer sequencing data, collaborate with Laboratory Team members to develop new tools and analytics, while taking a lead on moving new projects forward with regards to the integration of multi-omic datasets that will resonate from this project. The successful candidate will report directly to the Laboratory Head.
Job website: http://usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNAL_CAREER_SITE
Contact name: Vanessa Hayes
Contact email: v.hayes@garvan.org.au