AddressUE06 £31,396 to £36,024 per annum (A revised salary range for this grade of £32,982 to £38,205 is planned to take effect from Spring 2024)
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences
Fixed term until 31/3/2028
Full time, 35 hours per week
We are looking to recruit a talented and ambitious bioinformatician / computational biologist to support a range of collaborative studies across the McColl and Priller labs.
The Opportunity:
You will be joining research-intensive labs investigating neuroimmune mechanisms involved in brain health, ageing, vascular and degenerative brain diseases. This is an exciting role that will be integral to our labs and involve implementing and advancing computational methods which we use routinely as part of a multi-modal approach to addressing our scientific questions. While the role will primarily support ongoing and planned studies of the labs, there will be scope for professional development, and intellectual contributions to research design and analysis will be highly valued.
This post is full-time (35 hours per week). This is an on-campus located position, but we are open to this being supplemented with off-campus working on a task-specific basis and through prior agreement with the PIs.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Minimum of BSc or equivalent qualification and/or experience in bioinformatics, or a related computational discipline.
- Experience in bioinformatics and statistical analysis of large -omics datasets
- Excellent computer and programming skills (e.g. R, Python) and ability to develop and implement computational solutions using coding best practices.
- Good knowledge of bioinformatics tools and methods used in genomics/transcriptomics research
- Ability to work collaboratively in an interdisciplinary team and under own initiative
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
- Salary in the range of £31,396 pa - £36,024 pa (a revised salary range for this grade of £32,982 to £38,205 is planned to take effect from Spring 2024)
- To join a research environment with a strong emphasis in utilising omics approaches to solve biological problems and an understanding of the importance of analysis to achieve such goals.
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. The McColl and Priller labs are part of the UK Dementia Research Institute at the University of Edinburgh , a leading UK-wide research institute dedicated to neurodegenerative diseases. We are also part of Edinburgh Neuroscience , an integrated, cross-disciplinary and vibrant research community and one of the largest neuroscience groupings in Europe. Our labs are located on the Edinburgh BioQuarter campus, a hub for life sciences research and innovation, health data and bioinformatics, and healthcare delivery.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant research community applying computational methods and informatics to biomedical and health research. Edinburgh houses one of the largest bioinformatics hubs in Europe and our research centres have a well-connected team of informatics staff.
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits
Championing equality, diversity and inclusion
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
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On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 10 April 2024.
Informal enquiries are welcomed to Dr Barry McColl ( barry.mccoll@ed.ac.uk ) or Prof Josef Priller ( josef.priller@ed.ac.uk ).
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