You will be part of a growing team of a skilled bioinformatics team led by Dr. Morris Swertz embedded in high impact publishing genetics and bioinformatics research departments of >45 researchers (Prof. dr. CIsca Wijmenga, Prof. dr. Ritsert Jansen, >15 recent publications in Nature journals). We offer you access to a state-of-the-art next generation sequencing (NGS) facility, innovative a broad range of human and model organism labs, and collaboration with major national and international research groups including visits and stays.

We are looking for a postdoc to take the bioinformatics lead in exciting next generation sequencing projects such as to sequence 750 Dutch individuals (“Genome of the Netherlands project, BBMRI-NL) and to contribute to innovative analysis methods, high impact variation publications, dynamic software infrastructures and new diagnostic tools for the next generation of medical care.

What do we need?
The ideal candidate is a motivated PhD graduate with experience and background in bioinformatics, genetics, molecular biology and/or biotechnology, excited as we are to explore next-generation sequencing data, embark on ‘TB scale’ bioinformatics analyses, with excellent track record, good command of the English language, and a growing bioinformatics toolbox with statistical methods, knowledge of public tools, personal scripts, and so on.

What do we offer?
We offer a full-time contract for a period of 3 to 5 years and a starting salary € 3052-3279 gross per month (depending on qualifications/experience, Dutch UMC scale 10, 11).
Fellowship Application Deadline: 11 January 2011
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