Scientist / Centre for Animal & Veterinary Sciences (Contract)
Core
Providing professional laboratory diagnostic and research support for animal and zoonotic disease biosurveillance programmes and research projects.
Role type
Scientist (Laboratory Diagnostics & Research)
Builds
Laboratory diagnostic analysis, test protocols for pathogen characterization, and biosurveillance programs
Domain
Veterinary medicine, zoonotic diseases, biosurveillance
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Molecular pathogen characterization, laboratory diagnostic analysis, Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS), genetic/genomic analysis, e-DNA and e-RNA pipelines, quality assurance system maintenance
Preferred skills
Method establishment/validation, transfer of research analysis pipelines
Technologies
Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS), e-DNA pipelines, e-RNA pipelines
Responsibilities
Undertake assigned projects for method establishment/validation and molecular pathogen characterization; Perform laboratory diagnostic analysis in support of disease outbreak investigations; Develop and validate test protocols for higher order pathogen characterization; Transfer applied research analysis pipelines for use in biosurveillance programs; Participate in the maintenance of a quality assurance system in compliance with ISO/IEC 17025:2017
Seniority
Junior to Mid-level, hands-on IC