OPEN POSITIONS

Master/honours/PhD student position (Sydney, Australia): “Gene thieves: how a nudibranch incorporates the stinging cells of the Bluebottle jellyfish”. This project, with co-supervision by Amandine Schaeffer, aims to understand the evolutionary adaptation of gene stealing in bluebottle jellyfish and blue sea dragons. Project description

Paid intern position (Sydney, Australia): “Interactive network analysis charts in igraph and Python”. Nov 2021-Jan 2022 Project description

How to apply

Contact Fabio at [email protected]:

• Postdocs: Send a CV, a description of research interests, and the names and contact information for at least two references. There are many fellowships out there.

• PhD students: We accept students from UNSW through the Scientia and the Graduate Research programs. Write Fabio with a CV and a page of research interests.

• Honours students: We generally welcome candidates motivated to mix computational and molecular biology projects. Send one paragraph of research interest and one about your favourite lecture.

• Research interns (computational): We are always considering highly motivated research interns to work on a number of computational problems in single cell systems biology. Examples of projects: interpretable decision trees to navigate cell atlases, identify potent antibodies against dengue virus, compressing cell atlas representations, learning the language of immune cells via ligand-receptor analysis.

• Research interns (experimental): We are considering an experimental research intern to study outlier cells that behave differently from the mass via time-lapse microscopy.

We actively encourage people with underrepresented backgrounds (e.g. of aboriginal or Torres Strait island descent, minority groups, LGBTQ) to apply and promise to create a welcoming learning environment irrespective of social background.