Senior Bioinformatician - Oxford, United Kingdom - University of Oxford

University of Oxford
University of Oxford
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Oxford, United Kingdom

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About the Role


Our Theme's overall vision is to accelerate the development of both laboratory and data-driven diagnostics that are rapid, accurate, pathogen-agnostic and personalised, in order to improve patient management (including avoiding unnecessary or ineffective antibiotics); hospital management, including infection control (reducing nosocomial transmission); and public health and population-level policy-making.

This post is critical to experimental medicine research aiming to exploit genetic sequencing more effectively, through supporting the development of rapid, pathogen agnostic, culture-independent metagenomic diagnostics in combination with a team of wet-laboratory scientists, which could be high-throughput, would allow rapid identification of resistance to antibiotics (or antivirals), predict phenotype from genotype, and identify closely related strains suggestive of transmission/outbreaks (mediated through clonal spread [e.g.

_Staphylococcus capitis_,
_Clostridioides difficile_] and/or horizontal transfer [e.g. multi-drug resistant Enterobacterales]).

The capacity to participate iteratively in the development of workflows and the need to deliver results for real-time diagnosis and infection prevention decision-making means that time-critical delivery is essential to this role.

The post is full time and fixed term for 2 years in the first instance.


About the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine


The Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine (NDM) is one of the largest departments of the University of Oxford and is part of the Medical Sciences Division, with responsibility for a significant part of the teaching of clinical students within the Medical School.


What We Offer
As an employer, we genuinely care about our employees' well-being and this is reflected in the range of benefits that we offer including:

  • Flexible working
  • An excellent contributory pension scheme
  • 38 days' annual leave (including bank holidays)
  • A comprehensive range of childcare services
  • Family leave schemes
  • Cycle loan scheme
  • Discounted bus travel and Season Ticket travel loans


The University also runs a large number of social groups and sports clubs for those looking for more than just a great place to work.


About You


Applications are welcome from anyone with the right skills and interests, including those returning to work after career or other breaks.

Part time working (minimum 80% FTE) would be considered, including requests to spread the hours over the week.

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