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
Bioinformatics Research Assistant @ VIC
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
Research Computing Engineer @ VIC
Position title: Research Computing Engineer
Employer: WEHI
Closing date: June 4, 2022
Brief position description: To support its world-class research, WEHI has made significant investments in developing a state-of-the-art computing environment, spanning traditional on-premise HPC and cloud, and the expertise to harness these resources.
The role is part of the Research Computing Platform team and will work closely with WEHI’s researchers and ITS team. It will involve development and optimisation of data analytic pipelines and tools, data management and data movement tools, database development, collaborative planning of hardware and software infrastructure, the development of policy and procedures, and researcher training.
The successful candidate will have excellent computing knowledge and skills, a capability to learn and acquire new skills, strong communication and interpersonal skills, good understanding of computational research and the needs of researchers, and strong software engineering experience. The role will be required to build and maintain strong collaborative relationships with all stakeholders.
Terms of appointment
This position is available for two years in a full time capacity, in the first instance. Salary is Professional Services Employee Level 7 ($92,193 - $99,800). Up to 17% superannuation and very attractive salary packaging options are available.
See the website for selection criteria.
Job website: https://wehi.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WEHI/details/Research-Computing-Engineer_JR879-1
Contact name: Julie Iskander
Contact email: iskander.j@wehi.edu.au
Bioinformatics Research Assistant @ VIC
Position title: Bioinformatics Research Assistant
Employer: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Closing date: 10/6/2022
Brief position description: There is an exciting opportunity for a talented and motivated researcher with an interest in genomics and gene regulation to join the laboratory of Prof Doug Hilton in the Blood Cells and Blood Cancer Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.
The Hilton lab aims to understand the cells of the blood system and how they communicate with one another.
Our multidisciplinary approach combines genomics, cell biology, imaging, molecular biology, evolutionary biology, bioinformatics and computational biology to understand how the different types of blood cell develop from their individual lineages.
This position will focus on analysis of genomic data, including RNA-Seq, ATAC-Seq, ChIP-Seq and single cell transcriptomics to help understand the role of candidate genes in blood cell production and the evolution of our haematopoietic system. Additionally there will be opportunities for image analysis and for maintenance and updating of visualisations for our data portal www.haemosphere.org
Job website: http://wehi.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/WEHI/job/Parkville-Victoria-Australia/Bioinformatics-Research-Assistant--Hilton-Lab-_JR844
Contact name: Carolyn de Graaf
Contact email: degraaf@wehi.edu.au
Senior Bioinformatician, Bioinformatician, or Computational Biologist (depending on experience)
Position title: Senior Bioinformatician, Bioinformatician, or Computational Biologist (depending on experience)
Employer: Seonix Bio
Closing date: 12/6/22
Brief position description: Seonix Bio is a start-up company developing world leading technology to identify those at genetic risk of glaucoma so they can be diagnosed and treated earlier. Glaucoma is the world’s leading cause of irreversible blindness with 80 million sufferers worldwide, and is treatable if discovered early. Yet, 50% of glaucoma is currently undiagnosed. Seonix believes there is a major opportunity to transform clinical glaucoma care and reduce preventable blindness. Seonix’s technology is based on seminal research into a polygenic risk score for glaucoma, published in Nature Genetics.
Seonix is seeking a senior bioinformatician, bioinformatician, or computational biologist - depending on experience - primarily to:
- Research and develop a range of future applications for the company, including predictive algorithms combining genetic data with other data sources, custom genetic assay design and development, and polygenic risk scores for new diseases.
- Contribute to research and development of Seonix’s polygenic risk score for glaucoma and associated pipelines/software.
The successful candidate will report to the CEO and will work with Seonix’s Scientific Advisory team, bioinformaticians and software engineers.
The role may be full-time or part-time, depending on the candidate. A minimum commitment of 3 days per week is required. The role will be tailored to the experience of the candidate, and may suit either a senior bioinformatician or, for example, a capable post doc who is early in their career.
The successful candidate must be self-starting and self-driven, strong technically, have good communication and organizational skills, and be able to perform a wide variety of tasks in a start-up environment.
Seonix will offer a competitive package, depending on experience.
This is a rare opportunity for a talented individual to join an exciting company at an early stage and make a real impact.
Job website: http://seonixbio.com/careers
Contact name: Nick Haan
Contact email: careers@seonixbio.com
Bioinformatics Officer @ SA
Position title: Bioinformatics Officer
Employer: South Australian Genomics Centre (SAGC)
Closing date: 31st May 2022
Brief position description: An exciting opportunity now exists for an entry level post-doctoral researcher or experienced MSc-level bioinformatician to join the SAGC bioinformatics team. To flourish in this role, you will need to be able to work across multiple different projects and to possess excellent organisational and time-management skills.
This role is primarily responsible for conducting bioinformatics analyses on a wide variety of client projects with varying levels of complexity. You will have a varied and interesting workload across projects in different biological disciplines.
There are significant opportunities for professional growth and development through exposure to data sets from different genomics technologies. Staff are expected to enable research by leading the development of reproducible, standardised pipelines for genomics data analysis and, where necessary, new methods and pipelines. Your career development will be supported and you will be encouraged to publish your research and to collaborate on major funding applications to NHMRC, ARC or MRFF.
You will also be supported to develop your bioinformatics capabilities; ensuring that the SAGC can remain at the forefront of genomics. It is expected that you will have interest in and develop your capabilities in at least one specialist area of bioinformatics.
Job website: https://sahmri.org.au/careers-and-study/working-at-sahmri/vacancies/bioinformatics-officer
Contact name: Nathan Watson-Haigh
Contact email: nathan.watson-haigh@sahmri.com
Bioinformatician/Computational Biologist @ SA
Position title: Bioinformatician/Computational Biologist
Employer: South Australian Genomics Centre (SAGC)
Closing date: 31st May 2022
Brief position description: An exciting opportunity now exists for an experienced (Level B) post-doctoral bioinformatician/computational biologist to join the SAGC bioinformatics team. To flourish in this role, you will need to be able to thrive in a fast-paced environment, work across multiple different projects and to possess excellent organisational and time-management skills.
As an experienced bioinformatician you will have a deep understanding of at least one area of bioinformatics and have the ability to work independently and support junior members of the team to reach their full potential. You will have a sound understanding of software and workflow development best practices such as source control, test driven programming and continuous integration/deployment. Staff are expected to enable research by leading the development of reproducible, standardised pipelines for genomics data analysis and, where necessary, new methods and pipelines. Your career development will be supported and you will be encouraged to publish your research and to collaborate on major funding applications to NHMRC, ARC or MRFF.
The role requires a significant amount of face-to-face time with clients to scope out projects, communicate findings over the course of a project, and present a final report. In addition, you will lead hands-on training workshops, in your area of expertise, to teach attendees how to extract maximum value from their data.
Job website: https://sahmri.org.au/careers-and-study/working-at-sahmri/vacancies/bioinformatician-computational-biologist
Contact name: Nathan Watson-Haigh
Contact email: nathan.watson-haigh@sahmri.com
Postdoctoral Bioinformatician in Single Cell and Spatial Omics Data Analysis @ SA
Position title: Postdoctoral Bioinformatician in Single Cell and Spatial Omics Data Analysis
Employer: South Australian Genomics Centre (SAGC)
Closing date: 31st May 2022
Brief position description: An exciting opportunity now exists for an experienced (Level B) post-doctoral bioinformatician/computational biologist to join the SAGC bioinformatics platform. To flourish in this role, you will already have a deep understanding of single-cell transcriptomics data analysis and have at least a keen interest, if not existing experience, in the application of spatial transcriptomics and/or other spatial omics approaches to biomedical research questions.
As an experienced bioinformatician you will work with a relatively high degree of independence in the area of single cell and spatial omics data analysis. Single cell and spatial omics technologies available to us include the Chromium X, Visium, STomics, and NanoString technologies and we are actively collaborating with other researchers and facilities who are developing other spatial omics methods (e.g. spatial lipidomics and metabolomics).
You will have a sound understanding of software and workflow development best practices such as source control, test driven programming and continuous integration/deployment. Staff are expected to enable research by leading the development of reproducible, standardised pipelines for single cell and spatial data analysis as well as the development of new methods, pipelines and data visualisation tools. Your career development will be supported and you will be encouraged to publish your research and to collaborate/lead major funding applications to NHMRC, ARC or MRFF.
This role requires the successful candidate to be a team player with excellent communication skills. You will also contribute to the SAGC’s education and outreach activities by leading hands-on training workshops.
Job website: https://sahmri.org.au/careers-and-study/working-at-sahmri/vacancies/postdoctoral-bioinformatician-in-single-cell-and-spatial-omics-data-analysis
Contact name: Nathan Watson-Haigh
Contact email: nathan.watson-haigh@sahmri.com
Research Officer - Computational Drug Discovery Biology @ NSW
Position title: Research Officer - Computational Drug Discovery Biology
Employer: Children's Cancer Institute
Closing date: 22/05/2022
Brief position description: No targeted drug therapies exist for most common paediatric cancers. And the few targeted therapies available have mostly been developed for adult cancers, yet the mechanisms driving paediatric and adult cancers are usually different. Consequently, the only treatment option for many children is chemotherapies, which are harsh, unspecific and more harmful. For this role we are looking for a highly motivated and talented computational biologist to identify new vulnerabilities specific to paediatric oncology and support the discovery of new drugs targeting those vulnerabilities.
The successful candidate will join the THINK (THerapeutic INnovations for Kids) program, the only drug discovery research initiative in Australia focused solely on developing new and more effective treatments for children with cancer. Building on over 10 years of experience in high-throughput drug screening at Children’s Cancer Institute, THINK has established a target-to-clinical trials drug discovery capability focused on discovering new tailored treatments for children and adolescents who have no available targeted therapies to treat their cancer.
We are seeking a Research Officer to join the newly formed computational drug discovery biology group within THINK dedicated to 1) mining the wealth of existing genetic and biological information, including ZERO, to identify new drug discovery targets for THINK, and 2) accelerate the discovery and development of new drugs once targets enter the THINK pipeline.
The Research Officer will be responsible for intersecting internal and external information in order to propose new biological targets for paediatric oncology. The successful candidate will be an independent, highly motivated, and talented researcher, with a passion for conducting high quality research in the area of computational biology applied to therapeutic innovation in paediatric oncology.
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Leverage high dimensional data to propose new targets or treatments specific to paediatric oncology
- Develop cutting-edge bioinformatics and AI methods to advance drug discovery. In particular:
* Working closely with the Translational Biology group using Cas13 functional screening to validate and explain novel vulnerabilities
* Working with the Drug Discovery group to interpret and maximize Compound Screening (HTS, HCS, etc…) results
* Proposing novel approaches to leverage existing datasets for the purpose of target identification or compound repurposing
- Discover and validate biomarkers of response to targeted perturbations specific to paediatric indications.
- Staying abreast on advances in genomics and next generation sequencing technology in general, maintaining knowledge about drug discovery and translational biology.
- Develop and apply tools to combine biological data sets with ‘omic and perturbation data sets to better integrate, manipulate, and interpret a child’s multi-‘omics tumour profile and vulnerabilities (genome, transcriptome, biology)
Job website: http://ccia.connxcareers.com/Job/Details/9552968dbb1141df9ad2adf95dd22f4e
Contact name: Antoine de Weck
Contact email: adeweck@ccia.org.au
Clinical Bioinformatician @ VIC
Position title: Clinical Bioinformatician
Employer: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Closing date: 26/04/2022
Brief position description: One full-time & permanent position is available in our Clinical Bioinformatics team to support the cancer genomics service at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre!
Must have linux & programming skills. (python preferred)
Cloud computing and/or software development experience would be a strong advantage!
Being agile, keen to learn, solution focused and interested in cancer genomics would also be a plus.
Sounds like you? Apply here: https://www.seek.com.au/job/56545312
Job website: http://www.seek.com.au/job/56545312
Contact name: Roxane Legaie
Contact email: ROXANE.LEGAIE@petermac.org