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The Opportunity
The Diagnosis, Surveillance and Response Program at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) provides diagnostic and research capability required to investigate and respond to high impact and newly emerging diseases affecting livestock and other animals, including zoonotic agents. The molecular diagnostic scientist will play a key role in delivering diagnostic sequencing services as part of the Molecular Diagnostics and Agent Characterisation Teams at AAHL.
Molecular diagnostics underpin AAHL’s front-line routine and Emergency Animal Disease (EAD) diagnostic capability and encompass both PCR and state-of-the-art DNA sequencing methodologies. The Research Technician will be based in the microbiologically secure diagnostic sequencing laboratory. The primary focus will involve the day-to-day operation of the Illumina MiSeq and other Next-Generation Sequencers (NGS) for delivery of quality assured diagnostic services. The Research Technician will contribute to the evaluation and refinement of sequencing protocols, and to application-specific viromic or metagenomics pipelines for animal disease investigations and pathogen characterisation. In addition, the Technician will undertake after-hours diagnostic duties as required and contribute to research projects and other test development activities.
Your duties will include
Location: Geelong, Victoria
Tenure: Indefinite
Salary: AU$62K – AU$79K + up to 15.4% superannuation
Reference: 61233
To be successful you will need
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Applications Close
Tuesday, 7th May, 2019.