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Application Scientist in Strand LifeSciences Bangalore

Mon, 07 Apr 2014 08:17:32 -0500

Job Description
We are looking for a motivated application scientist to help evaluate, compare, and develop next generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis methods. The successful candidate should be able to quickly understand the state-of-art computational biology techniques, prototype them and perform benchmarking studies. The candidate must also be comfortable working with people from different disciplines and be able to present data analysis results in a clear and effective manner. The candidate is also expected to interact with customers as needed, write technical reports and publish new methods and/or data analysis findings in public forums.

Candidate Requirements:
A PhD in computer science, computational biology, Bioinformatics, or a related field, along with sufficient programming skills for prototyping. Experience with next generation sequencing data analysis is required. Candidates with MS degree but with relevant work experience can also be considered.

To Apply
To apply, please send your updated CV and cover letter to Dr. Rohit Gupta (rohit@strandls.com).

Source: http://www.strandls.com/application-scientist

MSc, or MSc/PhD (combined) or PhD positions in HanYank University Seoul Korea

Thu, 03 Apr 2014 17:20:30 -0500

MSc, or MSc/PhD (combined) or PhD positions available for HYU September 2014 intake with full scholarship:

http://www.academia.edu/6564970/MSc_PhD_position_announcement_at_our_Graduate_School

PhD Fellowship in Computational RNA biology

Tue, 01 Apr 2014 05:05:33 -0500

The RTH center in Copenhagen has an open PhD position in Computational RNA Biology from 1st May 2014, or soon thereafter. The position is for three years. Application deadline is 2014-04-24. For more information about the RTH center visit http://rth.dk. For the full posting, please see the attachment and for the online application procedure visit: http://www.ku.dk/stillinger/vip/ under PhD stipends

Qualification requirements:

The applicant should hold professional as well as personal skills
and qualifications as stated below:

A master degree in computational biology, computer
science, bioinformatics, or similar
Strong experience with algorithm development
Strong experience with Perl or Python (or similar)
Strong experience with C or C++
Possess good interpersonal skills
Be excellent in English, writing and speech

Computational Methods for the Analysis of the Diversity and Dynamics of Genomes

Sat, 09 Nov 2013 20:19:02 -0600

The German-Canadian international research training group

"Computational Methods for the Analysis of the Diversity and Dynamics of Genomes"

has currently open positions for graduate students, to study at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada) and
Bielefeld University (Germany), starting in the fall 2014.

This international graduate program is a close cooperation of:

Bielefeld University, Germany: Graduate progam "DiDy"
Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, Canada: Graduate program "MADD-Gen"

The available positions include six PhD positions at Bielefeld University, as well as PhD and MSc positions at SFU.

Application deadline: December 31st, 2013
Webpage: http://wiki.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/didy/Announcement

SocBiN Bioinformatics 2014

Tue, 03 Sep 2013 18:50:20 -0500

14th annual conference in Bioinformatics

Date : June 10-13

Organizers: The Society for Bioinformatics in Northern European countries (SocBiN) and the Norwegian Bioinformatics Platform / ELIXIR.NO

Venue: Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway

Topics:
Tools and technologies for integrative bioinformatics
Metagenomics
Comparative genomics and phylogeny
Post-ENCODE bioinformatics
Gene regulation
Cancer genomes
Marine genomics