Description
School of Medicine, £30,122 - £35,938 pa, Start: As soon as possible,
Fixed-Term for 3 years in the first instance
Details
An exciting opportunity for a Bioinformatician is available at the School
of Medicine at St Andrews University. You will join a dynamic and
multidisciplinary community and will play a key role in providing
specialist support to diverse projects across different research areas.
You will contribute to the development of a next generation sequence
analysis service to analyse and interpret data from deep sequencing
projects. Alongside provision of high quality support, a significant
contribution is expected towards the expansion of the service in scope and
staffing by increasing the number of users and attracting external
funding.
You will have a degree in bio-computing, preferably to PhD level with
significant experience in bioinformatics. Advanced scripting and
experience in the analysis of genome scale biological datasets,
particularly high throughput sequencing data are required. We also
envisage a role in the installation/maintenance of bioinformatics
applications and provision of advice/training to users. Good
communications and management skills together with a clear vision of the
advances and progress in the field are essential.
The post will be available immediately for three years in first instance
and will be based at the School of Medicine.
Informal enquiries to Dr Silvia Paracchini, e-mail: sp58@st-andrews.ac.uk
Details and application via:
Ref No: CD1173
Closing Date: 27 June 2012
