Salary: from £27,428 to £37,990 a year

Fixed term: until 31 July 2016

Closing date: 17 December 2011

Reference: 47410

Applications are invited for a Research Fellow position devoted to bioinformatics support and research in the field of high-throughput sequencing and the microbiology of trauma patients. This exciting opportunity has become available thanks to funding from the National Institute for Health Research to establish a Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC) focused on research on trauma patients on the Birmingham campus.

You will be in possession of, or close to obtaining, a PhD in a relevant subject area (e.g. molecular microbiology, microbial genomics, microbial phylogenetics) and will have an impressive publication track record. You will have recent relevant experience of large-scale analyses and annotation of molecular sequence data, particularly high-throughput sequencing data, of working in the Unix environment (programming or scripting) and of building a bioinformatics pipeline.

Informal enquiries can be addressed to Professor Mark Pallen on +44 (0)121 414 7163 or email:m.pallen@bham.ac.uk

To download the details and submit an electronic application online visit: www.hr.bham.ac.uk/jobs alternatively information can be obtained from 0121 415 9000

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