Job date: 2016-02-19
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Company : University of St Andrews Country : Role : Student
Appointment: The School of Biology at the University of St Andrews seeks to appoint a Lecturer or Reader (scale dependent on experience) whose research and teaching interests fall within the broad area of bioinformatics, evolutionary ‘omics and quantitative biology.
Role: We seek an individual who will cultivate a funded research programme, develop collaborations with other research groups in St Andrews and deliver excellent science. They will play a leading role in the St Andrews Bioinformatics Unit and the Institute for Data Intensive Research, both of which are cross-school units dedicated to developing modern computational resources for analysing large NGS and other ‘big data’ datasets. Research collaborations with groups in other schools and centres at the University of St Andrews, the James Hutton Institute and beyond present excellent opportunities for developing integrative research programmes.
The appointee will also play a principal role in developing and teaching bioinformatics, evolutionary genomics and similar coursework in quantitative biology at the undergraduate and masters level. Quantitative skills and informatics are increasingly relevant in modern biological research, and the appointee should have the capacity to enhance our teaching profile in these areas, as well as mentoring postgraduate students at the Masters and PhD levels.
Informal enquiries can be made to Prof Malcolm White (mfw2@st-andrews.ac.uk), tel: +44(0) 1334 463432) or Dr Nathan Bailey (nwb3@st-andrews.ac.uk, tel: +44(0) 1334 463367).
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