Research Assistant - Bioinformatics

at  The Garvan Institute of Medical Research

The Garvan Institute of Medical Research brings together world leading researchers and clinicians, collaborating locally and globally, to improve human health. Our mission is to harness all the information encoded in our genome to better diagnose, treat, predict and prevent disease. From the individual patient with rare disease, to the many thousands affected by complex, widespread illness, we are pioneering discoveries across diseases that have the deepest impact on our community.

• Developing, maintaining and executing bioinformatic pipelines/workflows, particularly in relation to scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomic data
• Contribute to the existing codebase in collaboration with other team members, including debugging, refactoring and enhancing legacy code
• Document new code, and make improvements to existing documentation
• Track, archive and actively manage raw and processed data in accordance with established procedures and policies
• Analyse clinical and experimental data, with an emphasis on relevance to clinical translation
• Assist other team members with their analyses
• Adopt, test and benchmark analytical packages for incorporation into analyses and standardised pipelines
• Present results internally and externally