Employment

Bioinformatics / Computational Biologist

Seeking Bioinformatics / Computational Biologist

We are hiring a bioinformatics/computational biologist to support the data analysis of a genome / transcriptome wide association study in the Bohlmann Lab. The research is part of the SMarTForsests Project funded by Genome Canada, Genome Quebec, Genome British Columbia and Genome Alberta. In this project, developing marker technologies for tree breeding, in particular inferring genetic markers associated with insect resistant traits of white spruce (www....

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Research Associate Position in Neurodegeneration

Position Start: January 16, 2013

Application Deadline: November 14, 2012

A Research Associate position is available within the UBC Centre for High-throughput Biology (CHiBi), to work in a highly interdisciplinary group that carries out research in the field of neurodegeneration. The successful candidate will develop and implement strategies for the analysis of genome-scale screens for modifiers of neurodegenerative diseases. Applicants must have advanced capability and research experience with machine learning approaches such as neural networks, support vector machines or Bayesian networks, have developed mathematical models for biological systems, and a...

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Research Associate - Centre for High-Throughput Biology

Position Start: December 15, 2012

Application Deadline: December 1, 2012

A Research Associate position is available within the UBC Centre for High-Throughput Biology, to work in a highly interdisciplinary team on the Genome Canada-funded project entitled "Next-Generation Integrated Pest Management Tools for Beekeeping". The position will have the responsibility of coordinating and participating in the major goals of Activity 3 of this project, involving honey bee marker-assisted selection. Activity 3 will compare advances made using traditional phenotypic selection of honey bee queens against putative proteomic markers for resistance to disease and the...

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