Qualifications – M.Sc. or Ph.D. in biology and university degree in computer science, with experience in both fields. The person will have sound network management skills and experience, with examples of achievements in production-level networks. Preference will be given to candidates with experience with biological collections, digitisation of collections, biodiversity, or biological software. The person will have excellent leadership qualities, networking, interpersonal skills, and a very good working knowledge of English and French.
Job Description – The biodiversity bioinformatics manager will design and implement the tools necessary to build a network of distributed databases that can be queried from the Web as a single entity. The person will put in place a Web-accessible portal for synthesising and displaying biodiversity data. The person will need to interact with a large community of biologists. The person will assist collections managers in the choice of software and hardware for efficient data entry, database management and digitisation of collections. The person will enable effective communication between collections managers and university information technology units. Working in concert with global biodiversity initiatives (e.g., GBIF, TDWG, etc.), the person will be knowledgeable of new bioinformatics developments related to biodiversity networks throughout the world.
The biodiversity bioinformatics manager will be based at the Institut de recherche en biologie végétale, associated with the Université de Montréal and located at the Montreal Botanical Garden. The position is for five years, with possibility of renewal, starting in Fall 2007 (negotiable). Salary to be discussed.
The Canadian University Biodiversity Consortium is a network of biological collections from 12 universities and five botanical gardens in Canada. One of its objectives is to put in place a network of over 30 distributed collections databases that focus on plants, fungi and insects. The project is funded by a Canadian Foundation for Innovation grant led by the Université de Montréal. The Consortium also includes researchers from the universities of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Guelph, Toronto, York, McGill, Laval and Acadia.
Applicants should send a letter of interest, a complete c.v. and names of three referees (preferably by email) to:
Dr. Anne Bruneau
Institut de recherche en biologie végétale
Université de Montréal
4101 Sherbrooke est
Montréal, Québec H1X 2B2
Tel: (514)-872-7301
anne.bruneau@umontreal.ca
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