Centre for Integrative Genetics (CIGENE)

On behalf of the sequencing platform, CIGENE is now inviting applications for a three-year position in bioinformatics/computational services associated with the sequencing service. The position is financed by the Research Council of Norway.

CIGENE - Centre for Integrative Genetics - is a multi-disciplinary research centre hosted by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) at Aas, 30 km south of Oslo. CIGENE is a genotyping core facility under the Norwegian Functional Genomics Programme. CIGENE is also partly responsible for the bioinformatics/computational services associated with the FUGE sequencing platform (http://www.cees.uio.no/research/facilities/roche454/) located at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) at the University of Oslo.

We foresee that the candidate will take responsibility - in close interaction with users as well as the R&D teams in CEES, CIGENE and the Norwegian Bioinformatics Platform – for developing a strong service base addressing a wide spectrum of computational tasks associated with analysis of data provided by the Roche/454 GS FLX sequencer. There will be opportunities for individually motivated R&D work providing this strengthens the competence base of the sequencing platform.

Qualifications:

• An educational background at minimum MSc level or the equivalent in bioinformatics and preferably statistics.
• Documented strong and relevant programming skills. 
• Applicants with experience from development of bioinformatic resources will be preferred, particularly within genome or gene variant (SNP etc) analyses, but other candidates with necessary skills are also invited to apply.
• We expect candidates to be highly skilled in their field, self-motivated, eager to take the initiative, in possession of good interpersonal skills and willing to work in close collaboration with others.

Annual salary ranges from level 42 - 50 on the Norwegian Government scale for an engineer (approximately NOK 336,500 to 384,900 (EUR 40,500 - 46,400)), depending on qualifications. The position is located at CIGENE’s premises at UMB, but the candidate is expected to spend substantial amounts of time also at the CEES premises at the University of Oslo.

UMB wants to recruit more females to science. If two or more applicants are considered to be equally qualified for the position, and at least one of them is a female, the female will be employed.

The application should be submitted via the link: ”Apply for this position” on top of this web page by October 24th 2008

Printed material which cannot be sent electronically (e.g. copies of verified testimonies, certificates, publications including Masters thesis etc) should be sent threefold (3 copies of each) by regular mail marked 08/1301 to Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Dept. of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, P O Box 5003, N-1432 Aas, Norway by October 24th 2008

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