Position: Bioinformatics Specialist Appointment: Academic Staff, Fixed Term Appointment, 100% time Anticipated Starting Date: Immediately
The Great Lakes Genomics Center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, School of Freshwater Sciences, is seeking a highly qualified individual to assist in providing bioinformatics support for functional, comparative, and environmental genomics projects. The Great Lakes Genomics Center has been formed to develop genomic resources that will expand our ability to answer key questions in freshwater sciences, such as the impact of contaminants, the composition of bacterial communities in freshwater systems, examination of population changes of key freshwater organisms and identification of biomarkers for environmental studies. The individual hired will manage bioinformatics resources pertaining to multiple on-going, multi-disciplinary projects including development of project-specific bioinformatics (computational and database) tools in conjunction with faculty, students, and academic staff; training and technical support for bioinformatics software; analysis of genomic and sequence data; oversight of computational and informatics resources including software and hardware; liaise with staff at the UWM computing cluster facility. Analysis will include analyzing genomic data including de novo assemblies of non-model species, multiple sequence alignment with next-gen high-throughput sequencing data, management of large datasets, gene and protein prediction, neural network analysis, and analysis of microarray data. Experience in programming with Perl, BioPerl or other programming related to sequence analysis, statistical packages (such as R or MATLAB), familiarity with UNIX environments and computing clusters desired. The Assistant Researcher position is a 12-month, 100% fixed term Academic Staff appointment. This position may be renewable on an annual basis. Salary will be within Academic Staff salary Range and will be commensurate with experience. Applicants must apply online by visiting https://jobs.uwm.edu/postings/15304. All applicants must submit a cover letter outlining qualifications and interests, along with a resume that includes names of three references that can speak to the applicant’s abilities, and contact information for all three references. Any questions can be directed to Dr. Rebecca Klaper, Director of the UWM Great Lakes Genomics Center at [email protected]. Review of applications will begin on August 12, 2013 and will continue until the position is filled.
