[Employment] Research Assistant Bioinformatics position in The Netherlands

[h.vanleeuwen from nunhems.com]

POSITION:  Research Assistant, Bioinformatics

Nunhems is an international company active in research, plant breeding, 
production, processing, marketing and sales of vegetable seeds for the 
professional horticultural production business. Nunhems is among the 
world's four leading vegetable seed companies and employs over 1400 
people. Nunhems is present in all major vegetable production areas in 
Europe, the Middle East, The Americas and Asia/Pacific. The company has a 
growth strategy and is highly successful.

The global Research & Development activities are coordinated and steered 
from Nunhems head office in Haelen, The Netherlands. For our Molecular 
biology lab in The Netherlands we are looking for a full time Research 
Assistant, Bioinformatics


Job purpose

    The Research Assistant Bioinformatics works on the development and 
maintenance of innovative tools, applications, and platforms for data 
management and analysis in the genomics and bioinformatics fields, and 
provides support for these to our team of scientists and research 
assistants in the Molecular Breeding department. The Research Assistant 
Bioinformatics will also perform large scale and customized bioinformatics 
and genomics analysis in collaborative projects with Molecular Breeding 
research teams, the Bayer BioScience Bioinformatics group in Gent, and 
external partners.


Profile

    * M.Sc. degree, or equivalent, in Bioinformatics, or in the field of 
Molecular Genetics with a strong affinity for Bioinformatics.
    * Experience in bioinformatics, genomics and sequence analysis.
    * Experience in at least one scripting language of Perl, PHP or 
Python.
    * Ability to work independently, and collaborate across a 
multi-disciplinary team.
    * Excellent analytical skills.
    * Good written and verbal communication skills.
    * Excellent interpersonal skills.
    * An innovative and creative personality.


Desirables

    * Experience in relational databases like MySQL, Oracle, Access.
    * Experience in the Unix and Linux operating systems.
    * Knowledge of statistics and algorithm development.
    * Background in plant genetics, plant breeding, comparative genomics, 
large-scale sequence analysis and data mining.


Application & Information

If you are interested and meet our profile, you are invited to send your 
application in English or Dutch to:
     Nunhems HR department
     vacancies from nunhems.com

Applications must be submitted by April 17th, 2009.


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