Employment and Training

Graduate students:

Graduate students interested in bioinformatics should apply to the UBC bioinformatics graduate program or the MSFHR/CIHR graduate training program in bioinformatics. or contact Dr. Sohrab Shah directly.

Postdoctoral fellows:

Postdoctoral fellows interested in cancer genomics and bioinformatics should contact Dr. Sohrab Shah

Current job openings:

Bioinformatician

We are seeking a bioinformatician who will analyse diverse sets of high throughput genomic data including next generation sequencing data derived from clinical breast and ovarian tumours, the results to assist with characterizing mutations in different cancer subtypes and determining molecular heterogeneity of large cohorts of patients to enable subtype-specific therapies for cancer patients.

Required education, experience and technical competencies include:

• Post-graduate degree in one of the following:
o bioinformatics, biostatistics, computer science (with some complementary background in molecular biology/genetics), statistics or genetics (with significant computational expertise)
• Minimum of 5 years related experience working in a research or corporate environment or the equivalent combination of education and experience.

Enquiries and applications can be made by sending a full CV and cover letter to jcromarty@bccrc.ca.

Software developer/Programmer

Seeking computer programmer/software developer in a high profile, world class research environment in cancer genomics at the BC Cancer Agency. Working in a team of bioinformatics researchers, the programmer will develop robust software solutions for high- throughput genomic data analysis for biomarker discovery in cancer.

Education/Work Experience:
Required:
- BSc in computer science
- 2+ years experience working in a Linux/UNIX operating system environment
- experience working with high performance computing such as Sun GridEngine or other Linux cluster environment (or cloud computing systems)
- proficiency with Perl, Python or bash scripting
- experience with C/C++ or Java
- knowledge of RDBMS systems (MySQL or Oracle)
- familiarity with Subversion, CVS or other code versioning management software
- eager to learn new things and contribute to a dynamic cancer research environment

Familiarity with the following is an asset:

- Hadoop MapReduce framework for Amazon EC2 cloud computing
- Familiarity with bioinformatics tools such as the Ensembl Perl API, genome databases and sequence analysis
- Software architecture and design skills (such as UML)

Enquiries and applications can be made by sending a full CV and cover letter to jcromarty@bccrc.ca.