Position title: Sequencing Specialist (OceanOmics Centre, Ocean Genomes Laboratory)

Employer: University of Western Australia (UWA)

Closing date: 27 Oct 2022

Brief position description: The Minderoo OceanOmics Centre at UWA combines a joint Ocean Genomes Laboratory, an OceanOmics Laboratory, and Computational Biology Services.

Equipped with the latest high-throughput sequencing technology and in collaboration with global partners, the Ocean Genomes Labortory will generate a comprehensive library of high quality marine vertebrate reference genome assemblies. All such reference genome data will be subject to rigorous QA/QC and all assemblies will be released publicly with open access.

The Ocean Genomes Laboratory will undertake research and development under the direction of Minderoo’s ambitious OceanOmics Program which has the goal of revolutionising ocean conservation through novel marine sampling and genomics approaches and scaling these to significantly advance our knowledge of marine life. The Ocean Gemomes Laboratory and Computational Biology Services will include state of the art infrastructure including sample and eDNA preparation areas, flow cytometry, single cell sequencing equipment and the latest bioinformatics and computational biology tools.
As the appointee you will, under general direction, provide a high level of genomics and eDNA specific technical support to academics, technical staff and students for practical activities undertaken within the OceanOmics Centre Ocean Genomes Laboratory.

You will have hands-on expertise in genomic sequencing from metazoans with a drive to protect marine environments. Your experience delivers an in-depth understanding of sample extraction, library preparation and long read sequencing workflows, and familiarity with digitisation of related methodologies and progress. You will have advanced organisation skills and be a team player, adding value to and leading teams to achieve mutual goals.

Job website:http://external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/512557?lApplicationSubSourceID=

Contact name: Richard Edwards

Contact email:rich.edwards@uwa.edu.au