Position title: Bioinformatician

Employer: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Closing date: 15 June 2022

Brief position description: The primary responsibility of this role is to support the bioinformatics analysis of cancer research projects in the Bioinformatics Core Facility, and will work closely with Professor Ben Hogan and Dr Lizzie Mason in the Program for Organogenesis and Cancer, and other researchers at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

The Bioinformatics Core Facility aims to provide all levels of bioinformatics support to research laboratories within Peter Mac. The team of bioinformaticians and postdoctoral scientists at the core work alongside laboratory and clinical researchers and contribute to their experimental design, grant applications and the analysis and publication of genomic and transcriptomic data. The core also develops and maintains software infrastructure required for bioinformatics processing, including pipelines and cloud provision systems.

The successful candidate will have an Honour’s or Master’s degree in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Computer Science, or equivalent. The candidate will have strong computational skills and experience applying them in the analysis of genomic data.

Job website: http://petermac.mercury.com.au/ViewPosition.aspx?id=Vm6Z7pbJhWk=&jbc=ere

Contact name: Richard Lupat

Contact email: richard.lupat@petermac.org