Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) is a State Corporation established through the Science and Technology (Amendment) Act of 1979, which has since been amended to Science, Technology and Innovation Act 2013. The 1979 Act established KEMRI as a National body responsible for carrying out health research in Kenya.
Vacancy: CGHR/01/250/22
Essential Requirements:
- A least PhD in Bioinformatics and/or Computational sciences OR a MSc degree in
- Bioinformatics with at least 5 years high level experience (equivalent to a senior scientist
- level).
- Expertise in genomics, population genetics, data science, computational biology
- Hands on experience with scripting languages such as Linux, Python, R and a strong
- grounding in biological sciences
- Familiarity with commonly used tools for variant detection (samtools, bowtie2, BWA, IGV,
- ANNOVAR, GATK) and file formats (BED, VCF, FASTQ, BAM, FASTA)
- Familiarity with commonly used and publicly available bioinformatics databases (e.g.
- GenBank, Uniprot, DDBJ, Ensemble, GEO, SRA, ExAC, ESP,ClinVar, VectorBase, KEGG,
- HGMD, OMIM, PubMed, UCSC)
- Experience designing bioinformatics experiments and/or providing oversight for the design
- of ‘omics/bioinformatics experiments.
- Experience working with unstructured data sources, (experience with genome assembly)
- An understanding of genome sequencing technologies and strategies.
- Having a familiarity with Big Data analysis including data mining, complex data
- visualization.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written)
- Organized, Hardworking and independent – The candidate must be able to plan and implement
- their workplans within the required timelines
Desirable Attributes
- Enthusiastic and strong interest in mosquito genomics, insecticide resistance and vector control
- Experience with mathematical modelling and computational biology
- Strong project management, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Membership of relevant professional networks (h3A, ASBCB, EASCB, ISCB and ISMB)
- Previous work with mosquitoes, or knowledge and ecology of mosquitoes will be an added
- advantage
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning skills in design of appropriate statistical analysis
- of experimental data
- Experience working with high–performance computing
- Experience in successfully leading teams
Skills and abilities:
- Excellent organizational capability to structure and organize tasks and set priorities logically and
- effectively
- Results driven; ability to judiciously spend resources available to achieve the most optimal
- outcomes
- Ability to build and lead strong teams and achieve projected milestones
- Ability to identify potential problems and trouble–shoot solutions
- Duties and Responsibilities:
- Participation in capacity building on bioinformatics by guiding MSc and PhD students on the
- project in both Kenya and Benin
- In charge of reception and storage of raw sequence data from the sequencing facilities,
- uploading to the high compute servers
- Take leadership in setting up virtual classroom discussions; small group discussions; data
- carpentry workshops, personalized virtual office hours with trainees on the statistical analyses
- of genomic data
- Participation in designing, review and update of the vector genomics and bioinformatics
- training curriculum
- Leadership in conceptualizing, innovating and development of new bioinformatic pipelines for
- analysis of genomic data
- Conduct bioinformatic analysis of raw sequence data to identify molecular markers associated
- with insecticide resistance in malaria vectors
- Attend conferences and workshops to disseminate research findings
- Leadership in drafting of technical reports, manuscripts, and outcomes of the project outputs
- Perform any other duties as assigned by the principal investigator
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