Position title: Bioinformatics Research Assistant

Employer: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Bioinformatics Core Facility)

Closing date: 15 June 2022

Brief position description: Outstanding candidates are encouraged to apply for positions now open at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre – a place where our normal days are extraordinary; as are the people we care for. Peter Mac is one of a handful of integrated cancer research, education and treatment centres in the world. Each day our team strives to provide the very best in cancer care, even better treatments and potential cancer cures for all people affected by cancer. Globally, we are facing one of the most pivotal times in the pursuit of cancer cures, and Peter Mac stands at its forefront. Together, we aim to lead a new era of cancer prevention, care and discovery, supported by state-of-the-art facilities at our new home within the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre building.

Your role in our future.

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.

For further information about this opportunity, please review the position description or contact us for a confidential discussion.

Peter Mac requires its staff to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Please contact us if you would like to discuss this requirement.

Peter Mac offers its employees the following benefits:
Salary Packaging
Employee Assistance Program
Central City Location
Training and Development Program

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

Contact name: Elizabeth Mason

Contact email: Elizabeth.Mason@petermac.org