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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
Grade 6, £37,689 - £44,292 per annum, inclusive of £3,223 per annum London Allowance.
Closing date
31 Jul 2019

Job Details

We seek a talented and motivated postdoctoral researcher to join the international laboratories of Oscar Marin at King's College London and Nick Luscombe at the Francis Crick Institute.

This highly collaborative post is funded by the MRC and forms part of an initial effort aimed at developing Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, directed by Oscar Marin.

The postdoc will apply state-of-the-art computational biology and bioinformatics techniques to analyse cellular diversification in the developing nervous system. The successful candidate will be embedded in a multidisciplinary team and interact with wet-lab as well as dry-lab scientists.

The ideal candidate will have recently completed or be completing a PhD degree in Biology (molecular biology, genetics, genomics), Computational Biology (bioinformatics, systems biology) or Statistics. Applicants must have a proven publication record.

A computing background is not strictly necessary, but you must be keen to work in a dry setting. For applicants with computing experience, fluency in Linux, and excellent knowledge in a programming language is expected (Perl, Python, C/C++, R/BioConductor, MatLab, etc).

Prior experience with handling genome-scale data is advantageous: examples include genome sequence and high-throughput-sequencing data for a range of research applications such as gene expression, protein-DNA/RNA binding, and chromatin conformation measurements. Ability to analyse single-cell RNA-seq data is desirable.

Postdocs are expected to develop and lead projects, as well as help supervise junior members of the laboratory. The ability to work in a team is essential. The post also offers the opportunity to develop new bioinformatics tools that may be widely useful to the scientific community.

The post holder will mainly be based at the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology located in the Guy's Campus of King's College London, but it is expected that the post holder will spend substantial periods at the Francis Crick Institute. We are also recruiting for a Research Assistant to join this team: https://my.corehr.com/pls/kingrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=1&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=015447

Fixed term to 31 October 2021.

This is a full-time post.

The selection process will include a panel interview, an assessment, a presentation. Interviews are scheduled to take place mid/late August.

This post closes on 31 July 2019. 

Company

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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