Protist Omics at Scale - Computational Biologist

The Earlham Institute has been awarded funding by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to develop Protist Omics at Scale, a three-year international methods-development programme run in partnership with the Scottish Association for Marine Science, home of the Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, and Aalborg University.

We are looking for a computational biologist to lead the computational core of the project: quality control, assembly, decontamination and co-biont separation, and structural and functional annotation across all three aims. Where existing tools fail, the postholder will diagnose why and develop what replaces them.

This is a postdoctoral computational biology/bioinformatics role focused on developing and applying novel methods for long-read and single-cell genome and transcriptome assembly across a diverse range of protist species.

Responsibilities

The postholder will:

• Develop expertise in advanced genome and transcriptome assembly approaches.
• Work on complex long-read and single-cell sequencing datasets.
• Contribute to the development of new computational methods rather than routine analysis.
• Develop research software engineering skills, including workflow development, packaging, and containerisation.
• Create and maintain reproducible bioinformatics workflows using platforms such as Galaxy and WorkflowHub.
• Collaborate closely with internal and external partners across the consortium.
• Lead or contribute significantly to project outputs.
• Publish research findings and present at national and international conferences.
• Participate in workshops, hackathons, and community training activities.
• Support the supervision and development of students where appropriate.