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Position:                      Research Associate II – Outreach Coordinator
Location:                     MaRS Centre, Toronto
Department:                Computational Biology
Reports To:                 Project Manager, Reactome
Salary:                         Commensurate with level of experience
Hours:                          Flexible (Full-time or Part-time options up to 35 hours/week)
Job Type:                    Hybrid or Remote
Status:                         Full-time Permanent or Renewable Contract

The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) is seeking an experienced and highly motivated individual to act as Outreach Coordinator for the Reactome project.

Reactome (reactome.org) is an open access and open-source curated database of human biomolecular pathways. Pathways are assembled from the published literature by Masters- and PhD-level scientists and integrated into powerful bioinformatics analysis tools on the Reactome website. Our interdisciplinary and international team comprises biologists, software engineers, and user interface designers. 

As Reactome Outreach Coordinator, you will lead our community outreach activities, strengthening existing collaborations and developing initiatives to foster new ones. Working with the software and curatorial teams, you will coordinate Reactome communications, including conference presentations, workshops, scientific and lay papers, and social media. You will develop education and training materials for in person and online learning and will contribute to the documentation on the Reactome web site.

We have several graduate positions (PhD or MSc) available for individuals interested in single-cell molecular technologies, bioinformatics and data science. Possible research topics include:

– Identifying signatures to predict treatment response in breast cancer

– Single-cell genomics of immune responses to cancer

– Microbial single-cell transcriptomics

New students can join the lab via the Anatomy and Cell Biology or Biochemistry graduate programs and will have the opportunity to join Western’s Collaborative Specialization in Machine Learning in Health and Biomedical Sciences.

Lab website: https://phulab.org/positions

The Hu lab in the Department of Biochemistry at Western University, Canada has multiple fully funded MSc/PhD positions in artificial intelligence for bioinformatics. Western University ranks within the top 10 research-intensive universities in Canada and top 200 in the world (The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023). Dr. Hu is a Canada Research Chair in Computational Approaches to Health Research and has excellent experience in mentoring trainees at different levels. Many of his trainees have received international and national awards, accepted into top graduate schools (like Oxford, Cambridge, UCLA, CMU, Toronto, UBC, McGill), employed in high-tech companies (like Google, Microsoft, Amazon), and landed tenure-track professor position with nomination for Canada Research Chair. The successful candidates can be registered in Collaborative Specialization in Machine Learning in Health and Biomedical Sciences (uwo.ca/sci/datascience/graduate/collaborative-specialization-ml-health-biomedical.html) in the Hu lab through the Department of Biochemistry.

Position: Outreach Lead & Curator (Scientific Associate I)
Location: MaRS Centre, Toronto
Department: Computational Biology
Reports To: Project Manager, Reactome
Salary: Commensurate with level of experience
Hours: 35 hours/week
Job Type: Hybrid/On-site
Status: Full-time, Permanent

The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) is seeking a highly motivated individual to act as Outreach Lead for the Reactome project. The position will also involve part-time curation of biological pathways.

Reactome (reactome.org) is an open access and open source curated database of human biological pathways. Pathways are assembled from the published literature by Masters- and PhD-level scientists and published alongside powerful bioinformatics analysis tools on the Reactome website. Our team consists of an international and interdisciplinary mix of biologists, software engineers, and user interface designers.

As Reactome Outreach Lead, you will work with the software and curatorial teams to coordinate all aspects of Reactome communications, including conference presentations, workshops, scientific and lay papers, and social media. You will develop education and training materials for in person and online learning, and will contribute to the documentation on the Reactome web site.

As a Reactome Curator, you will create machine-readable pathway records from the published literature using curatorial software developed by Reactome, in accordance with the comprehensive Reactome standards. We will provide you with extensive training on the Reactome data model and its associated tools.

OICR has a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy in place that requires proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or proof of a medical exemption issued pursuant to the Government of Ontario guidelines.  Accordingly, as a condition of employment, new employees who may be required to work at OICR offices are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 subject to the duty to accommodate on the basis of protected grounds pursuant to the Ontario Human Rights Code.

Fully vaccinated is defined as having received all of the required doses of a Health Canada approved vaccine and having received the final dose at least 14 days before your employment start date.

As described above, the requirement to be fully vaccinated is subject to the Ontario Human Rights Code. If the candidate is unable to receive the COVID-19 vaccine for a reason protected by the Code, requests for accommodation from the vaccine policy will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

To learn more about working at OICR, visit our career page.