Join our virus database team as a bioinformatician with a focus on data integration and pipeline development. If you believe in organizing today’s knowledge to improve tomorrow’s virus research, are driven by scientific curiosity and work best in a team, we encourage you to apply and help us advance virus research infrastructure. This position is situated in a collaborative and intellectually stimulating environment where your contributions can advance the field.
Your responsibilities:
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- Create, integrate and maintain data ingestion, curation and bioinformatics pipelines together with a database development team
- Develop novel visualizations and summaries to enable researchers to gain scientific insights from integrated virus -omics datasets
- Network with collaborators and support users of a virus database
- Help teach graduate workshops in computer science, bioinformatics, computational biology, and related subjects
- Stay current with advancements in new methodologies
- Contribute to publications
Your profile:
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- M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Computational Biology, Microbial Ecology, Microbial Biotechnology, Data Science or a closely related field or with equivalent work experience. Candidates in the final stages of obtaining their degree are eligible to apply.
- Excellent bioinformatics skills in handling virus (meta)genomics, (meta)transcriptomics, (meta)proteomics, sequence alignments and secondary structure datasets
- Experience with database and full-stack development including using APIs
- Proficiency in several programming languages and tools (Python, C++/Java, MySQL , R, Bash and/or LateX) and best coding practices
- Experience with high performance cluster or cloud environments and related tools (Linux/Unix, git)
- Experience with viruses, data curation, open science and/or research data management or a demonstrated willingness and ability to learn and implement these topics
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both written and spoken) in English; German and other languages a plus
- Prior teaching or mentoring experience are a plus
We offer:
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- Remuneration based on the provisions of the Collective Agreement for the Public Sector of the Federal States (TV-L) at salary scale E13 — depending on the candidate’s personal qualifications — including a special annual payment in accordance with the collective agreement.
- Independent work with one of the largest employers in Thuringia/exciting and varied fields of activity with creative freedom.
- You work in the scope of a national consortium consisting of renowned universities and research institutions.
- Flexible working hours (flexitime and, when applicable, home office).
- A family-friendly working environment with a variety of offers for families: University Family Office ‘JUniFamilie’ and flexible childcare (‘JUniKinder).
- University health promotion and a wide range of university sports activities.
- Attractive fringe benefits, e.g. capital formation benefits (VL), Job Ticket (benefits for public transport), and an occupational pension (VBL).
This position is initially funded for one year (full-time position, 40 hours per week), with a possibility of extension. We encourage applicants to apply with the understanding that while the initial funding period is one year, there is potential for continued employment contingent on additional funding.
Candidates with severe disabilities will be given preference in the case of equal qualifications and suitability.
Are you eager to work with us? Then submit your detailed written application, preferably by email (one PDF file), stating the vacancy ID 2024/bioinf02 to, by 16.12.2024 to:
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Prof. Manja Marz
Bioinformatik für Hochdurchsatzverfahren
Fakultät für Mathematik und Infomatik
Leutragraben 1
07743 Jena
E-Mail: rna@uni-jena.de
To apply for this job email your details to rna@uni-jena.de