Computational Biologist (Rare Disease)

Position title: Computational Biologist (Rare Disease)

Employer: Centre for Population Genomics

Closing date: Until filled

Brief position description: We are seeking a Computational Biologist to contribute to the development of novel analysis pipelines to interrogate genome, RNA-seq, long read data from rare disease patients and their family members, with the goal of improving the diagnosis of severe genetic diseases. This will require the development of novel analysis approaches and rigorous benchmarking of existing approaches. This role will involve working closely with CPG analysts and rare disease reseachers from accross Australia to enable patient diagnosis. The role will also require close coordination with the CPG software engineering team to ensure the method developed can be integrated into our scalable cloud-based production pipelines.

Job website: http://populationgenomics.org.au/careers/

Contact name: Cas Simons

Contact email: careers@populationgenomics.org.au