Senior Scientific Collaborator
Senior Scientific Collaborator
Swiss TPH - Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Allschwil, Switzerland
You will be working with the Malaria Genotyping Group, an ISO 17025 accredited laboratory. The group is doing research on malaria molecular epidemiology, with a focus on drug resistance, and is also providing services to drug developers for molecular monitoring during regulatory clinical trials. Among other tasks, you will be coordinating the service activities of the Group.
Your various responsibilities include:
- Establish single cell sequencing assays for Plasmodium species;
- Develop independent research projects and prepare grant applications;
- Conduct complex research activities combining field and laboratory work;
- Coordinate multiple research projects within the Malaria Genotyping Group;
- Establish and maintain scientific collaborations at the national and international levels;
- Supervise MSc and PhD students.
You should have the following experience and skills:
- PhD in molecular parasitology, and several years of postdoctoral experience in malaria research;
- Strong expertise in next generation sequencing (NGS) platforms, such as PacBio, and transcriptomics;
- Very good command in malaria bioinformatics (R/Python/bash);
- Experience of working in malaria endemic settings, especially Sub-Saharan Africa;
- Malaria parasite culture, FACS;
- Insectary management and Anopheles mosquitoes rearing;
- Familiarity with gene editing techniques, i.e. CRISPR-Cas9.
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