Research Fellow

The College of Medication, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences (MDBS) at Queen’s College Belfast, is at present in search of to nominate an distinctive candidate to the put up of Analysis Fellow. The profitable candidate will be part of the multi-disciplinary Prostate Most cancers genomics and radiation biology group led by Dr’s Simon McDade, Melissa LaBonte-Wilson and Prof Suneil Jain. 

This prestigious “BPCC genomics and bioinformatics fellow” put up, has been funded as a part of the philanthropically funded Belfast Prostate Most cancers Centre (BPCC) within the Patrick G Johnston Centre for Most cancers Analysis (PGJCCR) at Queen’s College Belfast. The place they won’t solely contribute to the substantial ongoing analysis programme constructing on datasets from lab and scientific research developed as a part of the continued FastMan PCUK-Movember Prostate Most cancers Centre of Excellence (CoE), a joint analysis programme with the CRUK Manchester Institute, the profitable candidate may even be anticipated to develop their very own avenues of analysis towards fellowship and funding functions.

The profitable candidate will construct and apply novel genomic lab and evaluation strategies and integration methods to assist analysis geared toward discovering and validating novel remedy approaches to enhance remedy outcomes for males with domestically superior and metastatic prostate most cancers handled with radiotherapy. This may embrace making use of a spread of methodologies for integrative evaluation throughout a spread of genomics datatypes together with RNA-seq, low go copy quantity, focused DNA panels, single cell and spatial transcriptomics in addition to epigenetic profiling (ChIP-seq and ATAC-seq) and CRISPR screens. They may even assist synthetic intelligence/machine studying efforts to combine these information modalities with longitudinal scientific, pathological and imaging information together with distinctive digital pathology and radiomics datasets as a part of a broader interdisciplinary group.

Working instantly inside the McDade/Wilson group, they may even present assist for managing genomics information and data-processing and evaluation pipelines to allow information interpretation to assist analysis in broader analysis teams. They may even contribute to educating and analysis supervision inside the College and can contribute to manuscript and grant writing as applicable.

The profitable candidate should have, and your software ought to clearly exhibit you have:

• Obtained or be about to acquire (submitted) a PhD in Biology, Genetics, Bioinformatics or a carefully associated space.

• Particular, related analysis expertise to incorporate:

o   Important expertise designing, conducting, managing, and analysing NGS methodologies, applied sciences, and information (to incorporate lab expertise of finishing up a spread of NGS assays e.g ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, RNA-seq)

o   Important related expertise with end-to-end evaluation and interpretation of genomic datasets technology and evaluation (For instance Exomes, genomes, ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, ATAC-seq)

o   Expertise with downstream evaluation and integration and interpretation of multi-omics information

o   Expertise of working with Linux/UNIX Compute environments (e.g. HPC)

o   Expertise of programming (PERL, python, R and Shell scripting) and information processing

o   Expertise utilising Open Supply genomics software program and packages e.g. Bioconductor and python packages.

• A publication document commensurate with stage of profession.

Please observe the above aren’t an exhaustive checklist. For additional details about the function together with the important and fascinating standards please click on the Candidate Info hyperlink beneath.

  
This can be a Fastened Time period place obtainable from 1 Nov 2023 – 31 Oct 2026. Fastened time period contract posts can be found for the said interval within the first occasion however particularly circumstances could also be renewed or made everlasting topic to availability of funding.

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