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About the Role

The Research Assistant provides essential technical and operational support to a research laboratory or group, enabling high-quality medical research and optimizing productivity through technical expertise and efficient resource management.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and execute bioinformatic pipelines/workflows, particularly for scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomic data.
• Contribute to the existing codebase, including debugging, refactoring, and enhancing legacy code.
• Adopt, test, and benchmark analytical packages for incorporation into analyses and standardized pipelines.
• Track, archive, and manage raw and processed data according to established procedures.
• Provide technical advice to researchers on specific research methods, instruments, and analysis tools.
• Ensure research data is accurate, high-quality, and conforms to good scientific practice.
• Communicate experimental results to researchers and collaborators through written reports and visual formats.
• Assist in the preparation of research papers and contribute content to grant applications and research proposals.
• Train students, postdocs, and peers on data collection, specialized tools, and laboratory safety protocols.
• Take responsibility for own professional development by attending workshops and learning new techniques.
• Work effectively as a reliable and approachable member of the research team.
• Manage internal communications, such as scheduling team meetings and research presentations.
• Manage research data and outputs to ensure compliance with open access requirements.
• Balance competing needs and timelines of multiple research projects to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrate scientific and professional integrity at all times.
• Contribute to the wider institute community by participating in committees, outreach projects, or donor activities.
• Comply with Garvan’s workplace policies, including the Work Health & Safety (WHS) Policy.
• Proactively identify, assess, and report operational, financial, and safety risks.
• Adhere to the organization’s Risk Management Framework.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by suggesting mitigation strategies.

Requirements

• BSc or MSc in computer science or a quantitative discipline (Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Mathematics and Statistics, Physics, Software Engineering, or a related field).
• Experience with version control systems, particularly Git.
• Experience using R and/or Python programming language.
• Familiarity with the Unix command line and high-performance computing environments and/or cloud computing.
• Knowledge of the fundamentals of molecular biology: DNA transcription and translation.
• Experience in the analysis of large molecular datasets, such as whole genome and transcriptomic sequencing data.
• Experience in handling, processing, and interpreting large-scale biological datasets derived from scRNA-seq and spatial technologies (such as Visium or Xenium).
• Experience in machine learning, deep learning, and foundational models is preferred but not essential.
• Experience working in a multidisciplinary team.
• Appreciation of ethical dimensions of clinical research.
• Excellent communication skills for written reports and oral presentations.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Strong desire to work co-operatively with other team members.
• Commitment to data organisation and implementation of quality controls.
• An interest in understanding how cancers evolve and progress.
• Must have full working rights in Australia.

Skills

• Bioinformatic pipelines/workflows
• scRNA-seq data analysis
• Spatial transcriptomic data analysis
• Code debugging
• Code refactoring
• Code enhancement
• Analytical package benchmarking
• Data management
• Technical advice
• Data integrity
• Scientific communication
• Research paper preparation
• Grant application contribution
• Research proposal contribution
• Mentorship
• Training
• Professional development
• Team collaboration
• Lab coordination
• Project delivery
• Risk management
• Version control systems (Git)
• R programming
• Python programming
• Unix command line
• High-performance computing
• Cloud computing
• Molecular biology fundamentals
• Large molecular dataset analysis
• Whole genome sequencing data analysis
• Transcriptomic sequencing data analysis
• scRNA-seq dataset interpretation
• Spatial technology dataset interpretation
• Machine learning
• Deep learning
• Foundational models
• Communication skills
• Organizational skills
• Time management skills

Location

• Sydney

Work Type

• 2 year fixed-term contract
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Entry-level
• Mid-level

Education Level

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

Salary/Compensations

• Up to $94,300 + 14% super + salary packaging

Benefits

• Generous salary packaging
• Ample opportunities for on-going training and development
• Stimulating, diverse and highly international research environment
• Flexible work arrangements
• 18 weeks paid parental leave for both parents including paid superannuation
• A range of additional leave types (cultural leave, conference leave, community service and study leave)
• Discounted Health Insurance
• Lifestyle discounts with community partners

About the Company

• Garvan Institute of Medical Research brings together world leading scientists and clinicians, collaborating locally and globally, to advance our understanding of disease, particularly cancer, autoimmunity and genetic disorders.
• Garvan is a global leader in fundamental biomedical research and its translation.
• Our mission is to make discoveries that will improve health for all.
• The Swarbrick lab are global leaders in the application of cellular genomics to human cancer, to find new diagnostics and treatments for society’s most challenging cancers.
• We are a diverse multidisciplinary team of scientists and clinicians with a vision to change cancer medicine.
• Garvan Institute of Medical Research is an independent Medical Research Institute (MRI) in Sydney, delivering scientific and clinical impact on a global basis and in partnership with organisations that share our vision.
• We are proud to be one of Australia’s largest and most highly regarded MRI’s.
• Our vision is global leadership in discoveries to impact and our enduring purpose is to impact human health, by harnessing information encoded in our genome.
• We seek to see our world-class discovery research achieve life-changing impacts, not only for individual patients with rare diseases, but for the many thousands affected by complex, common disease.

Equal Opportunity

• Garvan promotes a diverse workplace and is committed to the principles of equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging.
• We are always looking for culture ‘add’, not culture ‘fit’ and are building diverse teams with great sets of complementary styles and skills to help deliver our important work effectively.