EOI callout for bioinformatics opportunity in equine immunogenomics
Aleona Swegen
Our group at the University of Newcastle is seeking a bioinformatician or computational genomics collaborator for an equine single-cell immunogenomics project.
We have a 10x single-cell PBMC dataset with paired transcriptome and B-cell receptor libraries generated using custom enrichment primers. We are looking for someone with experience in immune repertoire analysis, single-cell genomics, or comparative immunogenomics to help analyse the raw data, reconstruct BCR sequences using alternative pipelines, and perform deeper repertoire analysis. An additional component of interest is improving the equine V(D)J reference resource using newer horse genome assemblies and germline inference approaches.
Please note there is currently no in-house bioinformatics supervision on this project, so we are specifically looking for someone with expertise and/or a strong support network in immune repertoire/single cell genomics who can work independently to design the analysis workflow.
Funding is available, and the scope/FTE commitment is flexible. This is a paid collaboration opportunity limited to applicants with working rights in Australia. For more information or to express interest please contact Dr Aleona Swegen: aleona...@newcastle.edu.au
We hope you can share this widely with your network and especially those with an interest in non-traditional species and comparative biology.
Thank you and looking forward to hearing from any interested humans.
Cheers,
Aleona
Dr Aleona Swegen BVSc PhD
ARC DECRA Fellow
Deputy Director, Centre for Reproductive Science
School of Science
College of Engineering, Science and Environment
University of Newcastle
Australia