One-year position for a bioinformatician / computational biologist in population genetics

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 11:19:02 -0600

The successful candidate will work as support staff mainly in the development, application and maintenance of pipelines for handling large omics datasets (including whole-genome sequences, high-density genotypes and mRNA sequences). These pipelines cover pre-processing of data, statistical analyses and genome bioinformatics. The postholder will also provide support in producing high-level graphic representations of
these data and of results from their analysis. Our team is part of UMR
7268 ADES research unit (Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Ethique
et Sant=E9), located at the Timone Faculty of Medicine (Aix-Marseille
University, 13005 Marseille).

JOB QUALIFICATION
- PhD/Engineer/MSc in bioinformatics, biostatistics, genetics/genomics
or any related field.
- Advanced knowledge of Bash/Perl scripting and job management on a Unix
HPC and in at least one basic language for data
manipulation/statistics (such as R/Python/Matlab) are required.
- Knowledge of at least one programming language (e.g. C), experience
processing -omics data or skills in advanced graphical representation
of data would be a plus.

DURATION
1 year, not extensible

SALARY
Gross salary is commensurate with experience and grade (MSc from
1,882=80/month and PhD/equivalent from 2,099=80/month).

APPLICATIONS/OPENING
Please send a motivation letter, a CV and the names of two referees to
pierre.faux@univ-amu.fr. The expected starting date is April 1st, 2021;
the job offer will however remain opened until the position is filled.

Pierre Faux

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One-year position for a bioinformatician / computational biologist in population genetics