Job Company: University of Edinburgh
The Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated Bioinformatician to play a core role in our genomics strategy. They will work from the new, state of the art Systems Medicine building at IGMM, designed around our thriving community of computational biologists. [More]
We are seeking a high calibre statistician or epidemiologist to join the Diabetes Medical Informatics and Epidemiology team within the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at University of Edinburgh. The Unit is an internationally recognised leader in research in diabetes using large biorespositories linked to electronic health care record data. [More]
We have a vacancy for an IGMM Staff Bioinformatician - who will be involved in the management and analysis of medical genomics project data within the Scottish Genomes Partnership , working closely with clinical and computational scientists. The SGP is a flagship project for genomics in Scotland, generating whole genome sequence (WGS) from thousands of NHS Scotland patients to gain new insights into a variety of diseases, and pioneering novel approaches to using WGS in NHS clinical practice. [More]
The Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution at the University of Edinburgh is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Postdoctoral research fellow to undertake phylogenetic analysis of multiple large data sets of E. coli genome sequences with the aim of quantifying the degree of transfer of antimicrobial resistance determinants between livestock and human populations. [More]
The MRC Human Genetics Unit in the IGMM, University of Edinburgh has a vacancy for a postdoctoral fellow in the field of computational/quantitative genetics and bioinformatics. The post-holder will be supervised by Dr. Albert Tenesa and initially undertake a project collaborative between Dr. Tenesa and Professor Ian Jackson. [More]
We are currently seeking to recruit a new staff member to provide bioinformatics support the analysis of high-throughput data within the Centre and provide advice and support to scientists interested in analysis of data.The post-holder will be expected to interact with Centre staff directly and build a portfolio of collaborative bioinformatics projects in direct response to the needs of CRM researchers. [More]
The post exists within programme 5 of the CTLGH (biorepository and data-driven portal); the purpose of the job is to analyse genomic and genetic data generated by the centre – including large de novo assembly projects and large whole-genome re-sequencing projects; to generate reference data sets; to integrate, compare, analyse and interpret genomic data on farm animals [More]
The Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine has an exciting opportunity for an experienced, highly motivated and user-focused Postdoctoral Bioinformaticist to play a core role in the Institute's medical genomics strategy. The post holder will join an innovative partnership emerging between the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow and the Scottish NHS: The Scottish Genomes Partnership. The SGP will massively extend the cutting-edge medical genomics research done in Scotland, and aims to establish genomics in clinical practice. [More]
The job sits within Mick Watson’s research group, which focuses on the development and use of computational methods to analyse large genomic, transcriptomic and metagenomics datasets, with a focus on farm animal health and production and host-pathogen interactions. We are recruiting someone with laboratory experience who is capable of running both wet- and dry/computational experiments. In particular we wish to set up the MinION, and assess the impact of long, single molecule reads on both transcriptomic and metagenomics data analyses. [More]
The Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health (CTLGH), established jointly by the University of Edinburgh, Scotland’s Rural College and the International Livestock Research Institute, wishes to appoint a Director of the Centre who will be responsible for its overall strategy and portfolio of research programmes [More]