BACKGROUND

A 2 year postdoctoral research position in bioinformatics/systems biology is
now available at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UBC,
Vancouver, Canada. The successful applicant will join a dynamic,
international group of researchers including experimental biologists,
immunologists, bioinformaticians, database and software developers and
systems biologists.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The position involves working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to use
large-scale genomics and system biology approaches to investigate the
regulation and functionality of the human immune response to infectious
agents, and learning how to exploit this knowledge to develop novel
antimicrobial therapies and adjuvants. The position will involve leading the
analysis of large in-house and public gene-expression datasets together with
protein-protein and protein-DNA interaction network information from our
manually-curated, in-house developed, database – InnateDB.
This project has very significant funding through two Grand Challenges in
Global Health grants (http://www.innateregulators.com) and a Genome Canada
grant "The Pathogenomics of Innate Immunity" (http://www.pathogenomics.ca) and
provides the opportunity for the successful candidate to work with
world-class researchers based at several different Canadian institutes, in
the UK, Ireland and Singapore.

REQUIREMENTS

The qualified applicant will have a Ph.D. in a relevant biological
discipline or in computer science plus demonstrated experience in
bioinformatics research. Familiarity with working in a Linux/Unix
environment, plus experience with relational databases (e.g. MySQL) and
programming in Perl or C, C++ are required.

PREFERENCES

Previous experience with large scale genomic analyses, particularly gene
expression analysis or network analysis would be an asset.

TERMS:
2 year term

LOCALE

Vancouver, BC, Canada

COMPENSATION:
CAD$45-50K per year

HOW TO APPLY

Submit CV to careers[at]cmdr.ubc.ca