From: bco-bounces@lists.oulu.fi [mailto:bco-bounces@lists.oulu.fi] On Behalf Of anita.tienhaara@helsinki.fi Sent: 10. marraskuuta 2010 11:29 To: FinBioNet Subject: [Bco] Equipment specialist / automation engineer at Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Equipment specialist / automation engineer
Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Karolinska High Throughput Center, Laboratory of Prof. Jussi Taipale
Form of employment: Fixed term employment with possibility to extension
Scope: Full-time 100%
Time period: The position is initially limited to 2 years with the possibility for an extension.
Description of the work group/equivalent and its work/focus:
Work involves developing and managing the robotic equipment and computational infrastructure of the Karolinska High Throughput Center (KHTC). KHTC is located in the Department of Bioscience and Nutrition at the Karolinska Institutet (KI). The KHTC hosts state-of-the-art liquid handling instrumentation and an automated laboratory that can be applied to a wide variety of high-throughput/genome-wide screens using drug-like small molecules and/or gene over- and underexpression. In addition, the laboratory will include two Illumina Hiseq 2000 massively parallel sequencers and associated server infrastructure. The KHTC is located adjacent to the medical systems biology research group headed by Prof. Taipale that consists of six postdoctoral scientists and two graduate students from biomedical and computational sciences.
Area of responsibilities/duties:
The successful candidate will work under the facility Director (Professor Jussi Taipale) to develop, manage and maintain the equipment infrastructure of KHTC. In addition, he or she will plan and implement new automation, screening and data analysis pipelines. Duties include design and development of automated liquid handling processes using graphical and command line interfaces, and development of maintenance of the sequence data analysis pipeline and Linux server(s).
Qualifications:
We are looking for a motivated applicant with very good organizational and communication skills in English and ability to work independently. The applicants should have a minimum of Masters degree or equivalent in biological or engineering sciences. A Ph.D. and postdoctoral training are considered a benefit. The position requires significant and broad-based programming skills, including ability to operate and manage a Linux server and develop software for controlling automated instruments and to handle and analyze large datasets. Experience in developing or operating automation pipelines or high-throughput scientific instruments, and good working knowledge of Swedish and/or Finnish are also desirable but not required. Individuals interested in combining the work with advanced studies will also be considered.
Contact Jussi Taipale, mailto:applications.taipalelab@biosci.ki.se applications.taipalelab@biosci.ki.se
Application procedure: Please submit your application by 30.11.2010 in English marked with reference number 5634/2010 to: mailto:applications.taipalelab@biosci.ki.se applications.taipalelab@biosci.ki.se
The application should contain:
. Curriculum vitae
. Letter describing your interest
. Two letters of recommendation
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