Vacancies

There are currently no specific positions vacant at the MAD or IBU. Nonetheless, feel free to contact us if you are looking for a microarray or bioinformatics related position. Please, do send us your CV and a covering letter stating what you are looking for and why. Your motivation is often crucial, so be clear about that. All letters may be informal and either in Dutch or English. Remember, since we collaborate with many Dutch life science research groups, as well as bioinformatics groups, even if we cannot help you directly, we mostly do know where to direct you to.

There is however one position within MAD Dry-lab for which we are contineously recruiting new staff:

Bioinformatician microarray data

for 32-38 hours/week, for a period of 2 years

The bioinformatician will be part of the MAD Dry-lab, currently consisting of three support bioinformaticians. As such, s/he will be responsible for the entire chain of microarray data analysis of biological experiments. These experiments concern cancer research, toxicogenomics, food safety, ageing, neurodegenerative disease, ecogenomics, and so on. The bioinformatician will support biologists by a) designing microarray experiments together with the life sciences researchers, b) generating gene lists together with Dry-lab colleagues, and c) interpreting the results together. This not only means applying tools, but is most often a quest to find and use the best bioinformatics tools and methods to analyze the data and answer the biological questions.

Tasks

• Support life science researchers with the microarray experimental design
• Retrieve and store experimental data from local or internet sources
• Analyze microarray experiments by applying a chain of well-established analysis tools
• Interpret microarray results and explore biological relevance together with biologists

Requirements

• MSc/BSc in bioinformatics (HBO/WO) or expertise at a comparable professional level (NB: candidates with expertise in molecular biology and informatics who wish to become a bioinformatician are also invited to apply)
• Affinity with life science research
• Basic skills in applied biostatistics
• Good communicative skills

More information

For more detailed information regarding this position you are invited to contact: Dr. Timo Breit, group leader MAD & IBU, tel. +31 20-525.7058, e-mail breit at science.uva.nl or Dr. Martijs Jonker, manager MAD Dry-lab, tel +31 20-525.7286, e-mail mjonker at science.uva.nl

Appointment

Appointment will be on a temporary basis for a period of two years. Based on a full-time appointment (38 hours per week), the salary will depend on your qualifications. The Collective Employment Agreement of the Dutch Universities is applicable.

Job application

Applications should include a detailed curriculum vitae plus a letter of motivation, and be submitted by e-mail.

We regret that, due to restrictions in our recruitment budget, we will be unable to consider candidates who are not resident in Europe at the time of application.