CSIRO Job Title: Postdoctoral Fellowship Job Number: 4009906 (Ref.#. N00979) Date Posted: 09/13/2011 Application Deadline: 10/16/2011 Job Description * Opportunity to work in a leading scientific institution with dedicated professionals * Offering outstanding career development and professional support * Join CSIRO - Australia's premier science & technology research organisation CSIRO Plant Industry Bioinformatics Team is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Fellow to contribute to a nationally important research initiative in wheat pathogenomics aimed at understanding how diverse pathogens infect wheat and how wheat defends itself. This position will directly provide bioinformatics inputs into wheat pathogenomics research and facilitate the comparative analysis and interpretation of emerging genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics datasets from diverse wheat-pathogen interactions. Specifically you will * Lead development of bioinformatics capability in the area of wheat pathogenomics, particularly comparative and integrative aspects across diverse pathosystems. * Assess, maintain or develop analytical pipelines that enable biologists to make robust interpretations from a range of large wheat pathogenomics datasets. * Actively engage with the CSIRO PI bioinformatics team and CSIRO-wide bioinformatics communities. Location: Canberra, Brisbane or Perth (negotiable) Salary: $75K – $82K plus up to 15.4% superannuation Tenure: 2 years Ref No: N00979 To be successful you will have : * PhD degree (or will shortly satisfy the requirements for a PhD) in bioinformatics, biostatistics, computer science or closely related fields. * Demonstrated experience in developing creative solutions to bioinformatic or computational challenges * Experience in one or several scripting environments, such as Perl, Python and R * Motivation to liaise closely with biological practitioners to develop tailored analytical methods to respond to specialized analytical needs About the Research Group CSIRO Plant Industry promotes profitable and sustainable agrifood, fibre and horticultural industries, developing new plant products and improving natural resource management through world-leading research. CSIRO Plant Industry Bioinformatics Team is a small, energetic team within Plant Industry. The role of the bioinformatics team is to develop internationally competitive bioinformatics research and support to address the analytical and computational challenges presented by modern genomics research. For more information on CSIRO Plant Industry please visit our website at: http://www.csiro.au/org/PI.html For further information and to apply online for the position of Post Doctoral Fellow please visit our website at CSIRO CAREERS, choose "Jobs Search" and insert Reference Number N00979 where indicated. Applications Close 16 October 2011 Contact: Jen Taylor CSIRO Clunies Ross Street Canberra, 2601 Australia Phone: +61 2 6246 4929
