Senior Scientist/Coordinator for high throughput sequencing core facility

Overview

60-80% start of employment: per immediate or by agreement. 12 months with option for extension/conversion to permanent contract.

The NGSP is one of five official core facilities at the University of Bern. The mandate of the facility is to support researchers in all aspects of their high-throughput sequencing experiments from project consultations, nucleic acid extractions to data generation from short-read and long-read sequencers, post run processing tasks, data storage and transfer. As we continue to expand our team, we are seeking a senior scientist to join the team and work closely with the head of the facility in a coordinating role at the junction of the lab team, data team and facility administration.

Responsibilities

• Provide scientific consultations to researchers on genomics and next-generation sequencing (NGS), with a focus on experimental planning, feasibility, and service selection.
• Contribute to research ma...