Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN)
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About This OpportunitySynthetic biology is characterised by a cyclic workflow based on the design, build, test, learn paradigm. The emergence of genome-foundries allows for the rapid, but still costly, generation of large numbers of engineered strains. The University of Queensland is establishing a complementary facility to genome-foundries, the Integrated Design Environment for Advanced biomanufacturing (IDEA bio, https: // www. ideabio.org.au/). This facility will consist of a TEST capability that allows for a deep phenomic characterisation of mutant strains, in partnership with Queensland Metabolomics and Proteomics (Q MAP https: // www. qmap.org.au/) and the Australian Genome Foundry (Macquarie University), as well as a LEARN capability that seeks to learn from large ‘omics data sets and direct strain optimisation, pathway optimisation and metabolic engineering to advance synthetic biology efforts in Australia.
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow specialising in machine learning to join a team of researchers to establish workflows to drive strain design and bioreactor operation optimisation at this facility. The position is primarily computationally based and will work with a metabolic modeller/data scientist, bioinformatician and dedicated software engineer. Modelling and machine-learning approaches will be used to learn from large data sets to identify optimal gene up/down regulation strategies to guide further strain engineering rounds, or to guide the optimisation of bioreactor operation. The role likely requires extensive coding and workflow development, and familiarity with software engineering principles or a software engineering background is extremely favourable.
Whilst the role is academic in nature, as an employee of an NCRIS-funded facility (https: // www. education.gov.au/ncris), the position has a strong service focus. You will be required to aid in the analysis, interpretation and reporting of data to clients by contractual deadlines, which may include researchers and industry, whilst developing novel workflows to allow for high- throughput data analysis.
Key responsibilities will include:
Research
Supervision and Researcher Development
Citizenship and Service
Other
Ensure you are aware of and comply with legislation and University policy relevant to the duties undertaken, including but not exclusive to:
This is a research focused position. Further information can be found by viewing UQ's Criteria for Academic Performance.
This is a full-time (100%), fixed-term position for up to 12 months at academic level A.
The full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $77,324.85 - $102,945.12, plus a generous super allowance of up to 17%. The total FTE package will be up to $90,470.08 - $120,445.79 annually. As these roles are covered by an Enterprise Agreement, you will also receive regular remuneration increases in line with the Enterprise Agreement.
The greater benefits of joining the UQ community are broad: from being part of a Group of Eight university, to recognition of prior service with other Australian universities, up to 26 weeks of paid parental leave, 17.5% annual leave loading, flexible working arrangements including hybrid on site/WFH options and flexible start/finish times, and genuine career progression opportunities via the academic promotions process.
About YouIn addition, the following mandatory requirements apply:
Questions?
For more information about this opportunity, please contact Dr Timothy McCubbin – [email protected]
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Applications close 10 July 2024 at 11.00pm AEST (R-39392). Please note that interviews have been tentatively scheduled for July.