Position title: Scientific programmer
Employer: The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University
Closing date: 30/09/2021
Brief position description: The Scientific Programmer will work on the improvements and extensions of scientific software tools in Eyras’ lab (https://github.com/comprna), and in particular, of RATTLE (https://github.com/comprna/RATTLE), for the reference-free reconstruction of transcriptomes from long-read sequencing, and SUPPA (https://github.com/comprna/SUPPA), for the study of differential splicing across multiple conditions. The position provides the opportunity to learn about the applications of these tools to study transcriptomes in the context of the projects being carried out in the lab. Further responsibilities involve helping in the compilation and running of the code in the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), developing unit tests and tests with experimental datasets, regular reporting of the technical issues and progress back to the supervisor.
The University actively encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. For more information on employment opportunities, contact our Indigenous Employment Consultant via: indigenous.employment@anu.edu.au
ANU values diversity and inclusion and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to those of all backgrounds and identities. For more information about staff equity at ANU, visit https://services.anu.edu.au/human-resources/respect-inclusion
Job website: http://jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/542075/technical-officer-programmer
Contact name: Eduardo Eyras
Contact email: eduardo.eyras@anu.edu.au
Senior Research Scientist in Computational Biology @ ACT
Position title: Senior Research Scientist in Computational Biology
Employer: CSIRO
Closing date: 21st September 2021
Brief position description: We are seeking a motivated Senior Research Scientist – Computational Biology to join the Traits Program within CSIRO Agriculture and Food. The research this program is undertaking is increasingly involving complex machine learning and computational approaches to address biological problems at scale and deliver outcomes with industry impact.
As the successful candidate, you will contribute to this evolving digital transformation through engagement across a variety of project areas including host-microbe interactions and protein engineering. Using your skills and expertise in computational biology and fostering collaborations with internal and external stakeholders, you will address novel bioinformatic challenges and complex or ill-defined biological questions, and develop new research areas facilitated by data analytics, modelling and machine learning tools.
This role is offered on a full-time or part-time (minimum 0.8 FTE) basis.
Location: Canberra (Black Mountain) ACT
Salary: AU$115k – AU$135k (pro-rata for part-time) plus up to 15.4% superannuation
Tenure: Indefinite
Reference: 76770
For full details about the role, including a link to the position description, please view the advert on CSIRO's website.
Job website: http://jobs.csiro.au/job/Canberra%2C-ACT-Senior-Research-Scientist-in-Computational-Biology/786771200/
Contact name: Melania Figueroa
Contact email: melania.figueroa@csiro.au
Research Scientist – Human Gut Microbiome @ NSW
Position title: Research Scientist – Human Gut Microbiome
Employer: CSIRO
Closing date: 3rd October 2021
Brief position description: CSIRO Health and Biosecurity is seeking a motivated Research Scientist to join the Microbiomes for One Systems Health - Future Science Platform (FSP). The FSPs address new scientific challenges for Australia.
In this role, you will use your gut microbiology capabilities to define critical elements of the human gut microbiome and their metabolic products that are important for maintaining health or predicting disease states. This will include will applying current and emerging statistical, bioinformatic and modelling methods to the analysis of complex data. The research will contribute to the ultimate goal of constructing a working model of the ideal human gut microbiome which will lead to long-term health benefits for Australian and global communities.
The Microbiome FSP is developing new understanding of microbiome connectivity across the environment to human continuum and how system perturbations impact on microbiome functionality, diversity and systems health. A key objective is to capture greater benefit from microbiome interactions through more informative and predictive frameworks for functionality and by targeted interventions.
Location: Adelaide, SA or Sydney, NSW
Salary: AU$100k – AU$108k plus up to 15.4% superannuation
Tenure: Specified term of up to 3 years
Reference: 76412
Full details about this role, including a link to the position description, can be found on the advert on CSIRO's website
Job website: http://jobs.csiro.au/job/Sydney%2C-NSW-Research-Scientist-Human-Gut-Microbiome/785728500/
Contact name: Kim Fung
Contact email: kim.fung@csiro.au
Head of Research Computing Platform @ VIC
Position title: Head of Research Computing Platform
Employer: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Closing date: 30/9/2021
Brief position description: An exciting opportunity is now available for a leader in scientific computing to become the Head of the WEHI Research Computing Platform within the Computational Biology Theme.
The role will be responsible to build on existing capabilities and support the world-class computational research at WEHI. The role will work closely with the Computational Biology Theme Leader, Chief Information Officer and Head of ITS Research Systems. It will involve engaging and collaborating with the outstanding computational and biomedical researchers at WEHI to help understand current and future needs and support their biomedical research. The vision is to drive the on-going development of advanced computing use at WEHI by delivering innovative, effective and scalable solutions that enable collaborative, flexible, reproducible, compute-intensive research while enforcing appropriate standards of data integrity, security, privacy and access.
Job website: http://www.wehi.edu.au/research-computing-platform-head
Contact name: Tony Papenfuss
Contact email: papenfuss@wehi.edu.au
Bioinformatics Support Engineer @ Australia
Position title: Bioinformatics Support Engineer - Australia
Employer: Agilent
Closing date: 30 Sep 2021
Brief position description: Agilent inspires and supports discoveries that advance the quality of life. We provide life science, diagnostic and applied market laboratories worldwide with instruments, services, consumables, applications and expertise. Agilent enables customers to gain the answers and insights they seek - so they can do what they do best: improve the world around us. Information about Agilent is available at www.agilent.com.
We’re looking for a highly motivated bioinformatics scientist to join our remote Genomics Support team to help provide customer support on Agilent’s NGS analysis tools, including the Alissa Clinical Informatics platform.
This platform streamlines data analysis and variant assessment workflows-providing outstanding support from raw reads to draft reports, reducing workflow complexity and time.
As a Bioinformatics Support Engineer, you will assist customers with secondary and tertiary NGS analysis to efficiently prioritize, curate and report genomic variants.
This role serves as customer contact on technical and troubleshooting cases. Support will include clinical customers and may deliver customer training/demos via WebEx. Works closely with sales, FAS, marketing, and R&D teams.
Provide online technical support to customers via phone and email
Efficiently troubleshoot and resolve customer’s technical inquiries
Provide customer facing NGS data analysis support for Agilent Genomics customers
Logs tickets in Tech Support CRM; work closely with Informatics Support, R&D Teams
Work with external customers such as bioinformatics, clinical genetics, laboratory scientists
Fixing data analysis files
Visualizing and assessing specific genetic variants and analyzing NGS data
Analyzing results from NGS assays
For more information about the role see Job Website.
Job website: http://recruiting.adp.com/srccar/public/RTI.home?c=2167807&d=External&r=5000752269406&_fromPublish=true#/
Contact name: Lindsay Collinson
Contact email: lindsay.collinson@agilent.com
Research Assistant @ VIC
Position title: Research Assistant
Employer: Federation University Australia
Closing date: 10 September 2021
Brief position description: Work as research assistant for few months. The ideal candidate should have background in computer science (data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning) and sound understanding of biology (genetic networks, protein structures, drug re-purposing etc.). The candidate will conduct literature review, propose new concepts/methodologies for problem solving and involved in writing grant applications, research proposals, and write review papers.
Job website:
Contact name: Madhu Chetty
Contact email: madhu.chetty@federation.edu.au
Postdoctoral Researcher @ SA
Position title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Employer: Flinders University
Closing date: 9/9/21
Brief position description: The Flinders Accelerator for Microbiome Exploration, FAME, is a new interdisciplinary research group at Flinders University with the mission of expanding access to microbiome and metagenomics approaches to accelerate the development of microbiome research across the biosphere!
As part of the Accelerator, the Research Associate in Bioinformatics will analyse viral genomics and metagenomics data from patients with Irritable Bowl Disease and associated control samples. This ongoing challenge requires talented, creative individuals to generate novel approaches to data mining. The Post-Doctoral researcher will advance our understanding of IBD by using viral genomics and metagenomics and leveraging experimental data to develop novel software packages to analyse these complex datasets. You will write and release code for ‘omics analysis using the latest breakthroughs in biology, machine learning, data science, and computer science.
You will develop cutting-edge approaches to explore complex datasets and interact with researchers to implement these approaches across the entire microbial spectrum, from phages and viruses associated with IBD.
Job website: http://flinders.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/flinders_employment/job/Bedford-Park/Research-Associate-in-Bioinformatics_JR0000002072
Contact name: Robert Edwards
Contact email: robert.edwards@flinders.edu.au
Senior/Research Scientist, Translational Bioinformatics @ VIC
Position title: Senior/Research Scientist, Translational Bioinformatics
Employer: CSL Limited
Closing date: 20 August 2021
Brief position description: To be successful in this role, you will have:
• PhD in computational biology, bioinformatics, biostatistics, statistical genomics, computer science,
or a related discipline with significant computational and biomedical components
• Post-doctoral experience in biomedical data analytics in a highly collaborative, interdisciplinary
environment in academia and/or industry with a focus on translational research.
• Experience in analysing multi-omic datasets (including clinical, non-omic assay, bulk and single
RNASeq and proteomic data) and working with life scientists to draw statistically solid biological
insights from data.
• Experience in genetic predictive modelling and gene signature characterisation
• Experience in applying network biology and pathway analysis algorithms (using open source
and/or commercial tools, e.g. EGSEA, IPA).
• Experience in using public bioinformatics databases to answer key research questions related to
experimental design, biomarker discovery and patient stratification (e.g., gene expression
databases, clinical variants, etc.).
• Experience in working in a Unix-like and high-performance computing (HPC) environment onpremises
or in the cloud using Python, R and other scientific computing languages.
• High quality track record of publications and presentations at national and international
conferences.
For more information and to apply, email a current CV and covering letter to monther.alhamdoosh@csl.com.au
Job website: http://www.csl.com
Contact name: Monther Alhamdoosh
Contact email: Monther.Alhamdoosh@csl.com.au
RESEARCH FELLOW(S) - DIGITAL PHARMA AND FOOD MANUFACTURING @ VIC
Position title: RESEARCH FELLOW(S) - DIGITAL PHARMA AND FOOD MANUFACTURING (x5)
Employer: The University of Melbourne
Closing date: 22 Aug 2021
Brief position description: Digitisation and AI will transform the manufacture of medicine and food. Victoria needs to develop skills and tools to realise the benefits of this transformation.
The University of Melbourne has partnered with industry to develop a program to transform food and pharma manufacturing, with new tools and platforms, custom education and a more digitally skilled workforce. Engineers, scientists and computing specialists will work with the pharma and food industries to build Australian advanced manufacturing capabilities. The lead industry partner is CSL and positions will be co-located at the University’s Parkville campus as well as the CSL Parkville premises.
The research will examine process modelling, simulation, optimisation and the best use of process data.
The multiple positions that are available through this program are:
Experimental
Research Fellow (RF1) - Cell Culture in Pharmaceutical Production
Research Fellow (RF2) - Scaling Bioreactors in Cell Culture
Research Fellow (RF3) - Membrane Operations in Pharmaceutical Production
Digital
Research Fellow (RF4) - Machine Learning for Optimization in Bioreactor Fermentation
Research Fellow (RF5) - Reducing the Uncertainty Found in Bioprocessing and Medical data (0.5 FTE) bioprocessing and (0.5 FTE) on medical data
About You:
Naturally you will be capable of demonstrating your prior record of achievement in the following:
- Postgraduate research degree at PhD level (or near completion) or Higher Education qualification in a field relevant to each position described above. Specifically:
- Research Fellow (RF1 & RF2) - mammalian cell culture, biotechnology, biochemical or chemical engineering.
- Research Fellow (RF3) - biotechnology, protein chemistry, biochemical or chemical engineering.
- Research Fellow (RF4) - machine learning or computer science.
- Research Fellow (RF5) - data science, statistics, bioinformatics/biostatistics or computer science.
- record of high-quality research as evidenced by publications in leading journals and at conferences commensurate with opportunity
- performing independent research with a commitment to interdisciplinary research
- leading and contributing in a cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teams
- being detail oriented, self-motivated and committed to the profession
- working with minimal supervision and ability to prioritise tasks to achieve project objectives within timelines, demonstrating flexibility to flourish in a fast-paced environment
- capacity to communicate research concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
- excellent written and verbal communication skills, demonstrated by presentation of research results at conferences, internal forums and manuscript submissions
- excellent interpersonal skills, including an ability to interact with internal and external stakeholders (academic, administrative and support staff) in a courteous and effective manner
- ability to develop, administer and see through to completion appropriately designed research projects with limited supervision
- flexibility in job location (CSL & University of Melbourne) and the ability to work across multiple worksites will be required
Additionally, it would be desirable (but not necessary) if you if you also had experience in relation to any of the following:
- for lab-based positions, experience in the relevant techniques is desirable (e.g. cell culture and bioreactor operation, protein purification)
- for digital positions experience in the relevant digital techniques is desirable
- supervision of students or other researchers
- record of applying for and attracting research grant funding
- interacting with industry partners
- capacity to build collaborations with a range of other researchers
For more information and the position description, please refer to
https://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/905792/research-fellows-pharma-and-food-manufacturing-x5
PLEASE NOTE: You must be currently located within Australia and able to commence immediately or as soon as your notice period has been served.
Job website: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/905792/research-fellows-pharma-and-food-manufacturing-x5
Contact name: Sally Gras
Contact email: sgras@unimelb.edu.au
CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Translational Vectorology @ NSW
Position title: CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Translational Vectorology
Employer: CSIRO
Closing date: 31 August 2021
Brief position description: CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system.
The Australian e-health research centre (AEHRC) is CSIRO’s digital health research unit delivering innovation to the health system. It is the largest eHealth research group in Australia with more than 100 research scientists working with clinicians and industry to identify the clinical and/or health challenges. AEHRC is worldwide and unique in covering the full value chain from basic science through to clinical application and assessing their impacts on Australian and international health systems.
Within the AEHRC, the charter of the Transformational Bioinformatics Group is to develop novel bioinformatics solutions for research and industry using the latest in cloud and BigData infrastructure.
The Postdoctoral Fellow will join this group from the AEHRC and collaborate closely with both other researchers from CSIRO and external collaborators (such as the Translational Vectorology group at the CMRI, Westmead) to drive research into and develop new models vector packaging for gene therapy applications. The candidate will lead work into developing models of how the DNA cargo of a gene-therapy vector folds inside the viral capsid shell and how changes in either the DNA sequence itself or the protein structure of this capsid can influence the overall packaging efficiency. The Postdoctoral Fellow will then work with collaborators to implement these models to streamline the process of vector design and manufacturing, directly contributing to cutting edge precision medicine research.
Job website: http://jobs.csiro.au/job/Sydney%2C-NSW-CSIRO-Postdoctoral-Fellowship-in-Translational-Vectorology/772287200/?locale=en_GB
Contact name: Laurence Wilson
Contact email: laurence.wilson@csiro.au