[SocBiN] Open position in bioinformatics in Finland

[Arne Elofsson]

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From: Nina Schulman <nina.schulman at mtt.fi>
Date: Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:44 PM
Subject: Open position in bioinformatics
To: president at sbc.su.se


Dear socbin president,

Would you please add the following text to the socbin web page.

Best regards

Nina Schulman
MTT Agrifood Research Finland
Biotechnology and Food Research

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Open position in bioinformatics

A permanent position for carrying out research in the field of
bioinformatics applied to farm animals and plants is available at MTT
Agrifood Research Finland in Jokioinen.

MTT Agrifood Research Finland is a leading research institute in Finland
developing sustainability and competitiveness of the food system (
http://www.mtt.fi/english). Operating under the Ministry of Agriculture and
Forestry, MTT employs around 750 people at 15 locations across Finland. Our
head office is situated at Jokioinen, a 1.5-hour drive from Helsinki.

The bioinformatician will join the Biotechnology and Food Research Unit,
genetics group and work mainly in collaboration with researchers in the
farm animal and plant genomics teams.  The main research focus of the teams
is on using genomics tools in animal and plant breeding, nutrigenomics, and
systemsbiology of fertility.

The researcher will be responsible of using methods of bioinformatics in
carrying out research on animal and plant genomics.  The person should
especially implement new methods for analyzing large amounts of sequence
data, be involved in writing scientific articles and assist other
researchers in the use of bioinformatic tools.

The successful candidate should have a PhD or Master’s degree in
bioinformatics, statistics, computer science, molecular biology, population
genetics or appropriate related discipline. Good knowledge and experience
in working with large data sets and sequence data, good programming skills
and good knowledge in genomics and biology are essential. We require good
language skills in written and oral English.

We offer a flexible working environment and a good opportunity to get
involved in many different research projects in the field of genomics.

The salary will be based on the job grade levels 12 to 13 and personal work
performance, where the base salary will be from 2.635,82 to 2916, 76 € and
the additional personal amount at most 46 % of the base salary.

The starting date for the job is on September 1st 2012 or as agreed.

Applications, including CV and references should be addressed to director
Eeva-Liisa Ryhanen, MTT Biotechnology and Food Research and sent by mail to
MTT/kirjaamo, Humppilantie 14, 31600 Jokioinen, Finland or by email in a
single pdf-file to the Registry Office of MTT kirjaamo at mtt.fi no later than
the 31st of July 2012, 3PM Finnish time. Please, add the code 400-142-12 to
your application.

For more information about the position, please contact professor Johanna
Vilkki, phone +358 29 5317900, johanna.vilkki at mtt.fi or the director of
Biotechnology and Food Research Unit of MTT, Dr. Eeva-Liisa Ryhanen, phone +358
29 531 7692, eeva-liisa.ryhanen at mtt.fi or team leader Maria
Tuiskula-Haavisto,  phone +358 29 5317831, maria.tuiskula-haavisto at mtt.fi.
Please notice that applications sent to the personal e-mail addresses are
not accepted.





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Yours

Arne

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 Arne Elofsson                Science for Life Laboratory
 Tel:+46-706951045         Stockholm University
 http://bioinfo.se/          Box 1031,
 Email: arne at bioinfo.se   17121 Solna, Sweden
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