Senior Bioinformatician - World Influenza Centre

Location: The Francis Crick Institute, Midland Road, London

Short summary

We are seeking a collaborative and self-motivated bioinformatician to join the Worldwide Influenza Centre (WIC) at the Francis Crick Institute to work on all aspects of influenza genomics. The WIC is a WHO Collaborating Centre for Influenza with international responsibilities for monitoring the evolution and epidemiology of Influenza. This Senior Bioinformatician is a critical role within the team, responsible for management of the WIC’s informatics pipelines and infrastructure, end-to-end delivery of genomic analyses and preparation of a variety of surveillance and vaccine selection reports that directly contributes to the WHO’s global strategy for combatting Influenza. 

The role is ideally suited for a creative and collaborative individual with a strong interest in the genomics and evolution of Influenza and other respiratory viruses.  We are looking for candidates that have extensive experience in next generation sequence analysis, particularly those with expertise in microbial population genomics, epidemiology, and statistics. 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead on the running and development of the NGS analysis pipelines
• Evaluate and provide software, databases, protocols and methods to aid in the analysis of genomic and biological analyses
• Develop methodologies and techniques to address analysis issues and implement software and data resources in relation to these technologies
• Automate or improve data flow and storage
• Work within a matrix management approach with the Data Management team, the software engineering team and the process development team at the Crick with the purpose of developing solutions for integrating influenza genomics data with other laboratory outputs (i.e. antigenic data, antiviral analysis) as well as with metadata into a LIMS system
• Perform downstream analysis and produce visually engaging figures and reports
• Contribute to writing manuscripts for publication 

About us

The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Its work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.

An independent organisation, its founding partners are the Medical Research Council (MRC), Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, UCL (University College London), Imperial College London and King’s College London.

The Crick was formed in 2015, and in 2016 it moved into a new state-of-the-art building in central London which brings together 1500 scientists and support staff working collaboratively across disciplines, making it the biggest biomedical research facility under in one building in Europe.

The Francis Crick Institute will be world-class with a strong national role. Its distinctive vision for excellence includes commitments to collaboration; developing emerging talent and exporting it the rest of the UK; public engagement; and helping turn discoveries into treatments as quickly as possible to improve lives and strengthen the economy. 

• If you are interested in applying for this role, please apply via our website.
• The closing date for applications is 22.10.2023
• All offers of employment are subject to successful security screening and continuous eligibility to work in the United Kingdom.

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