Position title: Post-Doctoral Research Officer - Bioinformatics

Employer: St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research

Closing date: 25/10/2022

Brief position description: St Vincent’s Institute (SVI) is an internationally recognized independent research organization, based on the St Vincent’s Hospital Campus on the edge of Melbourne’s CBD. The Institute has a dedicated team of over 250 staff and students, who are committed to improving the health and life-expectancy of Australians. We focus on common diseases that represent major health issues for Australians today, including diabetes, bone diseases, cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity and Alzheimer’s disease. With an exceptional pool of talented researchers and a growing number of state-of-the-art facilities, we are enthusiastic about the future.

Laboratory & Research Focus:

The DNA Repair and Recombination Laboratory is an established research group at SVI, focused on understanding the genetic control of DNA repair and recombination and the role that these processes play in inheritance and oncofertility. You will bring your skills as a bioinformatician and will work closely with wetlab researchers in the same team for all experimental stages from planning through to data analysis. You will be a self-motivated researcher with a PhD, first author publications and strengths in bioinformatics, genomics and/or digital image analysis, statistics, computation, and reproducible analyses. The role will be a mixture of semi-autonomous research and providing support as required to the wetlab part of the team. You may have the opportunity to develop your own research projects by negotiation.

To address our biological questions, we use a number of tools that produce large datasets which includes: histological and immunofluorescence microscopy, bulk high-throughput sequencing of genomic DNA, single-cell sequencing of genomic DNA, whole animal phenotyping from pedigrees, and other cell-based phenotypic datasets. The team is specifically interested in performing discovery research and identifying and characterising phenotypes which in turn improves our understanding of our biological interests.

Having a diverse workforce that represents the global and Australian community is very important to our team and we actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people with disabilities, from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ people, and all genders.

NHMRC-funded Position
We are seeking a self-motivated and passionate bioinformatics postdoc to join the DNA Repair and Recombination Laboratory team headed by Associate Professor Wayne Crismani. This role involves:

Performing exploratory data analysis in the areas of genetics and image analysis
Exploratory data analyses should produce hypotheses which can be tested
Advising wet lab scientists on data practices
Wrangling high throughput screening datasets
Package development where appropriate

Essential selection criteria:
-Enthusiasm for science is a must
-PhD in a computational discipline and demonstrable experience bioinformatics, genomics and genetics.
-Proficiency in computer programming and scripting in one or more of the following languages: R, Python, C++, Go, Nim, Rust, Java, Perl, SQL.

Salary: commensurate with experience ranging from $89,606 to $96,187 per annum, plus 10.5% superannuation and generous $15,900 FBT exempt salary packaging.

Position Descriptions: https://www.svi.edu.au/careers_students/careers/current_vacancies

For a confidential discussion about the role: wcrismani@svi.edu.au

Applications via Seek: https://www.seek.com.au/job/58617417

Please submit as PDF's -
- CV (one page max) – Please limit publications to your top three with a brief descriptor of your contribution to these works.

- Cover letter (one page max) – Please explain why you will be a good fit for this role.

Closing date: 25th October 2022

(please note that this is an indicative closing date as we will commence interviewing candidates of interest as they apply and therefore the role may be filled before this date)

Job website: http://www.seek.com.au/job/58617417

Contact name: Wayne Crismani

Contact email: wcrismani@svi.edu.au