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