Postdoc

Job Description:

POST-DOCTORAL POSITION IN PATHOGEN GENOMICS AT THE PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF
CANADA (PHAC)

Applications are invited for a post doctoral fellowship position available
immediately in a Genomics Research and Development Initiative (GRDI)
project at the PHAC�s Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses (LFZ), Guelph,
Ontario, Canada.  Fellowships are awarded initially for one year with the
possibility of renewal for a second and third year.

The project is focused on development of high resolution molecular
subtyping of the highly clonal enteric pathogen, Salmonella Heidelberg. The
approach is to use whole genome sequencing to identify SNPs that will
provide highly discriminatory identification of related and unrelated
strains.

With open whole genome sequences of numerous selected strains now
available, the candidate will undertake genome assembly, annotation and
analysis to identify panels of SNPs that potentially will provide the
required discriminatory power and can be used for in silico analysis of
whole genome sequences and in rapid subtyping assays.

The successful candidate will have been awarded a PhD within the past five
years and should have PhD/Post-doctoral experience in microbiology,
molecular biology and microbial genomics. Previous experience with pathogen
genomics would be an advantage, as would some knowledge of basic
bioinformatics methods.

The project lead scientists are Roger Johnson, Kim Ziebell and John Nash of
PHAC, LFZ, Guelph.

For more information: Roger.Johnson@phac-aspc.gc.ca

Location: PHAC Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Starting date: Preferably by December 1, 2014.

Stipend: approx.: CDN$50,503 per year, under the Visiting Fellowships in
Canadian Government Laboratories program of the National and Scientific and
Engineering Research Council of Canada.
http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/PD-NP/Laboratories-Laboratoires/index_eng.asp

Application deadline: October 17, 2014

How to apply: Email your application to Roger.Johnson@phac-aspc.gc.ca as a
single pdf file containing your CV with publications, contact details of
two referees, and a letter (maximum 1 page) with a description of your
research interests and why you would be a suitable candidate for the
position.

Roger Johnson <Roger.Johnson@phac-aspc.gc.ca>

Requeriments :

• Doctorate Degree

Skills :

• Bioinformatics
• Health Science
• Modeling
• Next Generation Sequencing
• Statistics

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