Employer: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Closing date: 20th November 2023

Brief position description: This position will join the Bioinformatics Core Facility to provide bioinformatics support to next-generation sequencing and other high-throughput genomics data using best-practice methods. This position is a full time one-year, fixed term position with a prospect for a permanent position. Candidates interested in a part-time position are also encouraged to apply and put the relevant information in the cover letter.

The Bioinformatics Core Facility aims to provide all levels of bioinformatics support to research laboratories within Peter Mac. The team of bioinformaticians and engineers 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 analysis pipelines, machine learning workflows, and cloud provision systems.

This position will primarily support the bioinformatics analysis of cancer research projects by developing and maintaining analysis pipelines to be used by Peter Mac Research. This position will work and communicate closely with cell biologists, bioinformaticians, software engineers and system admins to address the analytical challenges posed by evolving genomic technologies.

Job website: https://careers.petermac.org/job/MELBOURNE-Bioinformatician-Cancer-Research-VIC-3000/936068810/

Contact name: Richard Lupat

Contact email: richard.lupat@petermac.org