Public Health Genomics Bioinformatician - AusTrakka

University-of-Melbourne; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 111,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

17% superannuation

Salary packaging

Professional development opportunities

Health and wellbeing programs

Discounted services

Job summary

The University of Melbourne invites applications for a full-time, fixed-term Bioinformatician (AusTrakka) within the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Biomedical Sciences. You will apply advanced bioinformatics to national pathogen genomics surveillance, analyze genomic data, and refine pipelines to enhance Australia’s public health response.

You will collaborate with genomic epidemiologists and partners across government, laboratories and academia, designing pipelines,

Qualifications

• Postgraduate qualification in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology or closely related discipline.
• Experience using Python and/or R in UNIX/Linux environments.
• Ability to design, validate and troubleshoot bioinformatics pipelines for pathogen genomics.
• Experience with large NGS datasets and phylogenomics in public health/clinical contexts.

Responsibilities

• Plan, execute and report AusTrakka genomic analyses to support surveillance and outbreak investigations.
• Collaborate with epidemiologists and public health partners to interpret findings and communicate actionable reports.
• Design, validate and maintain bioinformatics pipelines for routine pathogen genomics service delivery.
• Represent AusTrakka and MDU PHL bioinformatics in internal and external forums.

Skills

Python

R

UNIX/Linux

Bioinformatics pipelines

Phylogenomics

Data interpretation

Report writing

Education

Postgraduate qualification in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology

Tools

Python

R

UNIX/Linux

Docker/Containers

Workflow engines

Job description

The University of Melbourne invites applications for a full-time, fixed-term Bioinformatician (AusTrakka) within the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Biomedical Sciences. You will apply advanced bioinformatics to national pathogen genomics surveillance, analyze genomic data, and refine pipelines to enhance Australia’s public health response.

You will collaborate with genomic epidemiologists and partners across government, laboratories and academia, designing pipelines,