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Position: Program Manager, Bioinformatics.ca
Site: MaRS Centre, Toronto
Department: Adaptive Oncology
Reports To: Associate Director, Adaptive Oncology
Salary: Commensurate with level of experience
Hours: 35 hours/week
Status: Full-time, Temporary (2-year contract with renewal option)

Bioinformatics.ca currently hosted at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) is seeking a Program Manager to take over leadership and management of Bioinformatics.ca and its Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop (CBW) series. As Canada’s national bioinformatics training initiative, this high-profile position involves engaging with key opinion leaders, stakeholders and expert faculty across Canada and beyond to realize CBW’s mission to accelerate the use of bioinformatics as a tool in health and life sciences through education, networking, and outreach. The role involves community outreach and engagement, as well as representing Bioinformatics.ca internationally to ensure it remains globally competitive. This role will champion the Bioinformatics.ca brand and participate in reimagining what Bioinformatics.ca can become over the coming years.

New employees who may be required to work on-site 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.

Job Title: Scientific programmer – docker + django server and website development
Start Date: January 3, 2023
Job End Date: 1-year renewable pending on funding and performance
Salary: commensurate with experience

Are you interested in taking part in international collaborations to improve human health and
well-being using data and information sciences? The Centre for Infectious Disease Genomics
and One Health, led by Dr. William Hsiao and located at Simon Fraser University
(https://cidgoh.ca/), develops innovative solutions spanning the entire knowledge generation
spectrum from data generation, processing, management, analysis, to knowledge
representation and discovery. We combine bioinformatics techniques (sequence analyses and
workflow development) with semantic web technologies (knowledge graphs, ontology, RDF) to
support better One Health-oriented data harmonization and sharing solutions.

Position: Bioinformatician II
Site: MaRS Centre, Toronto
Department: Genome Sequence Informatics
Reports To: Manager, Genome Interpretation
Salary: Commensurate with level of experience
Hours: 35 hours/week
Status: Full-time, Permanent

The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) is seeking a Bioinformatician for the Clinical Genome Interpretation (CGI) group, part of the Genome Sequence Informatics (GSI) team. The successful candidate will function in an intermediate technical role that requires an individual with proven skills in both biology and computing, and who is dedicated to supporting a multidisciplinary team of scientists, laboratory technicians, and informatics professionals.

The Bioinformatician will provide support for the management and analysis of next-generation sequencing data and the operation of a high-throughput production sequencing data analysis pipelines in OICR’s 5600+ core HPC computing environment.

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 on-site 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.

The Dumeaux lab has a bioinformatician position open related to a project in sperm epigenomics and paternally-driven birth defects. The project is led by a multidisciplinary team comprised of Prof. Sarah Kimmins and clinical collaborators in Montreal, providing an excellent training environment.

We are extending our bioinformatics team and are seeking an enthusiastic bioinformatician who would like to build and advance their career in translational cancer genomics and spearhead the implementation of next generation sequencing and different multi-omics methodologies in routine cancer diagnostics and precision medicine.

As a bioinformatician, you will conduct analyses of genomics data from childhood /adult cancers, hereditary diseases and cancer predisposition syndromes in close collaboration with molecular biologists, geneticists, pediatric oncologists and other bioinformaticians. Examples of recent projects include the development of bioinformatic algorithms based on long-read panel sequencing technology for diagnostic approaches as well as genomic, transcriptomic and epigenomic analyses of pediatric leukemia and solid tumors on primary tumors and liquid biopsies, and the analysis of experimental model systems (e.g. Shahin T et al Science Immunology 2021; Halbritter et al Cancer Discovery 2019; Peneder P*, Stütz AM* et al Nature Communications 2021; Popitsch et al Bioinformatics 2021 and Schinnerl et al Haematologica 2019). The research institute CCRI is also involved in several large-scale national and international research collaborations and serves as a national reference center for several clinical trials.

The position is focused on acting as an active member of the bioinformatics core unit and as service provider for the different research groups at the CCRI but also offers opportunities for independent and applied research of novel bioinformatics methodologies related to the CCRI research programs.