Bioinformatics Research Officer / Senior Research Officer @ VIC

Employer: WEHI

Closing date: 2024/04/01

Brief position description:  An excellent opportunity is available for a Bioinformatics Research Officer / Senior Research Officer to work within the Advanced Genomics Facility on the analysis of spatial omics, Olink (proteomics), and single-cell data at Australia’s pre-eminent biomedical research institute.

This successful candidate analyse data from a variety of cutting edge spatial omics technologies, including Visium, Xenium, STOmics, MERSCOPE and more, as well as developing new analysis workflows for Olink protein-profiling data.
This is a great opportunity to analyse data from cutting edge technologies, collaborate with excellent biomedical scientists, and to work in a supportive team.

This position could lead to either fully research-driven or staff-scientist career pathways.

Job website:  https://wehi.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/broadbean_external/job/Parkville-Victoria-Australia/Bioinformatics-Research-Officer---Senior-Research-Officer_JR2234-2

Contact name: Peter Hickey

Contact email: hickey@wehi.edu.au

Research Assistant (Bioinformatics & Computational Biology) @VIC

Employer: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Closing date:  8 March 2024

Brief position description: Applications are invited to join an exciting multi-discliplinary research program within Mark Dawson’s Laboratory (https://smex-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=www.thedawsonlab.com&umid=de34786c-b3ea-4c7d-b51b-dcb7d64b3414&auth=4d41e25c5d761d3d9b3f3fb6ac781e525dd700b4-bb19eb3663de449407d29df43edfe9515cc2e7cc) at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. The research will explore the molecular mechanisms of clonal dominance in normal development and in cancer biology to provide insights into cell fate decisions, normal and malignant stem cell renewal, treatment response and resistance in cancer.

The position will involve the analysis of large-scale single cell data through the application of best-practice bioinformatics workflows and the development of innovative methods as required. The position will require a highly motivated bioinformatician or computational biologist to provide support for a variety of projects that build on innovative methods including SPLINTR (Fennell, Vassiliadis et al; Nature 2022, Holze et al BioRxiv 2023) – a cellular barcoding and lineage tracing technique. The role will include the analysis of a range of next generation sequencing data, including scRNA-seq, scChIP-seq, scATAC-seq and spatial transcriptomics. The role will require proficiency in at least one relevant programming language (e.g. R/Python/Perl) and experience working on a high-performance computing cluster. The individual will collaborate very closely with other bioinformaticians, cancer cell and molecular biologists in the Dawson laboratory team to work on joint initiatives.

The position will be in a research environment that includes a large and interactive group of bioinformaticians and computational biologists in the Computational Cancer Biology Program and the Bioinformatics Core Facility. The position will be initially for a fixed term of 12 months with the opportunity to extend for up to 5 years. Remuneration will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Applicants to this role should provide a covering letter outlining relative key skills and experience to assist us with our assessment. 

Alternatively, please contact us using the information below for a confidential discussion.

Hiring Manager: Dane Vassiliadis and Enid Lam
Email: Dane.Vassiliadis@petermac.org and Enid.Lam@petermac.org

Job website:  http://careers.petermac.org/job/MELBOURNE-Research-Assistant-%28Bioinformatics-&-Computational-Biology%29-VIC-3000/948385710/

Contact name: Enid Lam

Contact email: enid.lam@petermac.org

Postdoctoral Fellow @ Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute

Employer: Monash University

Closing date: Sunday 10th March 2024

Brief position description: We're seeking a talented Research Fellow to join our team under the guidance of Professor Diana Hansen. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across Indonesia and Japan, participating in international consortiums to investigate immune responses to dengue virus. Utilizing a systems biology approach, you'll identify correlates of protection from severe illness and biomarkers to predict dengue fever outcomes in endemic areas.

Key Responsibilities:
1. Conducting cutting-edge research and publishing findings in conferences and journals
2. Supervising research-support staff and guiding junior members of the research team
3. Contributing to research proposal submissions and engaging in professional activities
4. Collaborating with geographically dispersed teams and managing projects effectively
5. Occasionally contributing to teaching programs within your research field
6. Co-supervising honours and postgraduate research project.
Key Selection Criteria:
• Doctoral qualification in immunology, microbiology, or public health
• Demonstrated experience in assessing immune responses to infection in humans
• Proficiency in techniques such as flow cytometry, CyTOF, ELISA, RNA-sequencing, and single-cell RNA-sequencing
• Basic coding skills in R or willingness to learn for high-dimensional cytometry analysis
• Strong statistical analysis skills and a record of research publications
• Experience in mentoring and supervising research staff and students
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment

Job website: https://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/661973/research-fellow-microbiology

Contact: Diana Hansen

Contact email: diana.hansen@monash.edu

Bioinformatician @ CSIRO

Employer: CSIRO

Closing date: Monday 19th February 2024

Brief position description: The role of a bioinformatician in CSIRO is to conduct innovative research leading to scientific achievements that are aligned with CSIRO’s strategies. 

Specifically, this role will deliver research outcomes to the CSIRO cotton breeding program, a breeding program with a research and development pipeline from understanding the molecular basis of traits of interest through to commercial variety delivery. 

As part of several industry-supported research projects, we are undertaking a large-scale genomic prediction and phenomic analysis of commercial cotton varieties across a suite of traits. 

We are looking for a computational biologist specialising in genome informatics that can develop and utilize computational approaches to analyse genomic and transcriptomic datasets, with a particular emphasis on next generation DNA and RNA sequencing, its application to genotype by sequencing, genome assembly and annotation , through to gene network-analysis and use in genomic prediction models for improving breeding accuracy

Job website: https://jobs.csiro.au/job-invite/95291/

Contact: Rad Suchecki or Warren Conaty via email at Rad.Suchecki@csiro.au  Warren.Conaty@csiro.au, respectively

Postdoctoral Fellow / Research Fellow @ ANU

Employer: National Centre for Indigenous Genomics, The Australian National University

Closing date: 25 Feb 2024

Brief position description: The National Centre for Indigenous Genomics (NCIG) is creating reference resources for Indigenous genomics to advance knowledge and healthcare utility for Indigenous Australians. Towards that, we are generating telomere-2-telomere reference genomes and population-scale variation catalogues in partnerships with multiple Indigenous Australian communities. We are conducting a major research project into Indigenous Pharmacogenomics funded by an MRFF grant titled “Advancing Health Equity for Indigenous Australians through Pharmacogenomics”.
As a postdoctoral or research fellow focusing on pharmacogenomic research, you will play a pivotal role in conducting discovery research, developing innovative algorithms and software solutions for genomic data analyses, and performing empirical evaluations and benchmarking experiments. Through your contributions, you will enhance the utility and impact of NCIG genomic resources for the benefit of Indigenous Australians.
We are seeking exceptional candidates with a track record of high-impact research in genomics, bioinformatics, and quantitative biology. You will have exceptional technical skills and be familiar with computational technologies, DNA sequencing platforms, and large-scale genomics data analysis. If you are passionate about using your expertise to improve Indigenous health outcomes in active partnerships with Indigenous communities, we invite you to apply for this challenging and rewarding position at NCIG. Join us in making a real impact on Indigenous health by pushing the boundaries of genomics research.

Job website: http://jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoctoral-fellow-research-fellow-canberra-act-act-australia-d4461721-a086-4e0c-9521-94b41db206f6

Contact name: Hardip Patel

Contact email: hardip.patel@anu.edu.au

Bioinformatician - McArthur Lab @ VIC

Employer: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Closing date: 29th January 2024

Brief position description: We are seeking a talented and committed Bioinformatics Officer with a PhD or graduate degree who has extensive experience in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Computer Science or Statistics. A background in cell biology would be appropriate. The overall goal of our team is to understand the impact of cancer therapy on both the tumour cell and its microenvironment, our aim is to develop novel treatment strategies that are durable and prevent therapy resistance. To address our aim we are using multiple high-throughput technologies, including single-cell RNA sequencing, lineage tracing, long read RNA sequencing, spatial transcriptomics and multiplex immunohistochemistry. The Bioinformatics Officer would be responsible for both implementing existing available tools and packages as well as developing novel methods, analysis tools or strategies to understand changes in tumour cell biology and the tumour microenvironment.

Job website: https://careers.petermac.org/job/MELBOURNE-Bioinformatician-McArthur-Lab-VIC-3000/947193710/

Contact name: Karen Sheppard

Contact email: karen.sheppard@petermac.org

Bioinformatician - Cancer Research @ VIC

Employer: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Closing date: 12th December 2023

Brief position description: The primary responsibility of this role is to support the bioinformatics analysis of projects within the Cancer Genomics Translational Research Centre (TRC).

The Cancer Genomics TRC is focused on supporting a range of academic and commercial translational research projects. The team provides a range of services, covering sample handling, wet-lab processing, and bioinformatics analysis.

This position is predominately focused on supporting a project involving the analysis of DNA methylation and targeted sequencing data, via the application of established bioinformatics workflows. With additional opportunities to assist with development of new workflows/tools and other analysis of other next generation sequencing data.

We are seeking a motivated bioinformatician/computational biologist with experience in analysis of next generation sequencing data, competency in R/Python and shell script programming languages. The individual will be working closely with other bioinformaticians, cancer biologist and clinicians, to deliver on translational research projects.

Job website: https://careers.petermac.org/job/MELBOURNE-Bioinformatician-Cancer-Research-VIC-3000/946272310/

Contact name: Stephen Wong

Contact email: stephen.wong@petermac.org

Research assistant/Post doc @ VIC

Employer: Florey Institute of Neurosicence and Mental Health

Closing date: 20/12/2023

Brief position description: About Us

The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health is a medical research institute specialising in the brain and mind and is one of the world’s top 10 brain research centres. We employ exceptionally talented people who work to solve the greatest brain and mind challenges of our era. Our staff and students are the bedrock of our research and success, and we strive for excellence by fostering partnerships and empowering people. At the Florey our mission-driven culture enables our people to collaborate, thrive, learn, make ground-breaking discoveries and advance humanity through brain and mind science.

About the role:

The candidate will be responsible for:

Reporting to the chief investigator, Drs Nicholas Pan and Liang Jin with multiple tasks (with a focus on data analysis), working both as part of a team and independently.
Provide trainings to honours and HDR students within the group
Contribute to project reports, and to grant proposals and publications as appropriate
Draft and contribute to scientific materials, including literature reviews, ethics, grant submissions, protocols, and documents
Participate in team meetings and working groups and interact with group members
Undertake general administration duties, supporting the research team
Support the collective vision and mission of the Florey through
open and collaborative communication that promotes positive and respectful relationships
fostering and supporting innovation within the team and broader Institute teams
excellence in practice driven by a focus on equity, diversity and inclusivity

The successful candidate will have:

A Masters* or PhD degree in a relevant area or related discipline
Communicate highly effectively in oral and written form
Excellent and succinct writing skills
Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
Competence in use of software products for bioinformatic analysis
Relevant working experience, evidenced by e.g. publications
Experience with the below is desirable, but not essential:

Academic background in neuroscience, immunology
Experience in proteomics, scRNA sequencing
Experience in machine learning
Experience in teaching/student supervision

Job website: http://floreyinstitute.applynow.net.au/jobs/FLOREY182-research-assistant-bioinformatics-neuroscience-focused

Contact name: Nicholas Pan

Contact email: yijun.pan@unimelb.edu.au

Bioinformatics Research Officer or Research Assistant—Parental Leave Replacement @ VIC

Employer: WEHI

Closing date: 10 December 2023

Brief position description: We are seeking a talented and motivated Research Officer or Research Assistant to join the Bioinformatics Support Facility at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) to fill a vacancy due to parental leave. While this is a short-term position, there is potential for the role to become on-going. The Support Facility forms part of WEHI’s Bioinformatics Division, one of the largest bioinformatics research groups in Australia that has achieved a reputation for developing statistical and computational methodology that is applied worldwide. The purpose of the Support Facility is to build and maintain a world-class core bioinformatics facility. It provides bioinformatic and statistical support to WEHI’s biological research groups, in addition to advancing research within the Institute.

Job website: https://wehi.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WEHI/job/Parkville-Victoria-Australia/Bioinformatics-Research-Officer-or-Research-Assistant-Parental-Leave-Replacement_JR2328-1

Contact name: Alexandra Garnham

Contact email: garnham.a@wehi.edu.au

Casual Biostatistician/Statistical Bioinformatician

Employer: WEHI

Closing date: 7 December 2023

Brief position description: The appointee will analyse a distinctive proteomics dataset, sourced from samples taken up to 10 years before disease onset, offering a rare chance to identify predictive disease markers. Collaborating with the Bioinformatics Division and the Centre for Healthy Ageing and Care (CFHAC), the role involves crafting and applying advanced statistical methods for large-scale proteomic datasets linked to healthy ageing and disease. The appointee will develop statistical workflows compatible with the latest proteomics data, ensuring findings are integrated into clinical diagnostics through partnerships with CFHAC's clinical associates.

Job website: https://wehi.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WEHI/job/Parkville-Victoria-Australia/Casual-Biostatistician-Statistical-Bioinformatician_JR2296-1

Contact name: Belinda Phipson

Contact email: phipson.b@wehi.edu.au