The Australian government has funded three
inter-related projects under the umbrella title, Integrated Biological Systems:
- The Australian
Phenomics Network (APN) – a network of research centres providing Australian
and international researchers with mouse models for the study of human and
animal disease.
- The Australian Plant
Phenomics Facility (APPF) – two nodes exploiting recent advances in
robotics, imaging and computing to enable sensitive, high throughput
analyses to be made of plant growth and function.
- The Atlas of Living
Australia (ALA) – a network of institutions and agencies working to
develop tools and services for managing information on Australian
biodiversity and research organisms.
The ALA is providing
some of the core information infrastructure to enable the APN and APPF to
organise large quantities of data and images on their study organisms and to
make these resources accessible to researchers in Australia and overseas.
Two positions are now advertised for
bioinformaticians to work with the APN and the APPF to explore their data
management requirements and to work with the ALA to develop appropriate services to
support these communities.
The APN is seeking a bioinformatician to be based at Australian National
University in Canberra. The closing date for
applications is 24 September 2008. See the following materials:
The APPF is seeking a bioinformatician to be based at
the University of
Adelaide. The closing
date for applications is 19 September 2008. See the following materials:
I urge those who are interested to apply promptly.
Donald
Donald Hobern, Director, Atlas of Living Australia
CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra,
ACT 2601
Phone: (02) 62464352 Mobile: 0437990208
Email: Donald.Hobern@csiro.au
Web: http://www.ala.org.au/