Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics

**Position Title / Rank**: Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics**
**Department**:Integrative Biology**:
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**Position Description**:

- Synthesis of genomic databases using advanced bioinformatics and data analytics
- The use of transcriptomics, metabolomics, or proteomics to understand biological responses
- Environmental, ecological, population, ecosystem genomics
- Cellular responses to physiological or environmental stressors
- Genetic diversity including eDNA
- Impacts of environmental stress on ecosystem resilience
- Complexity of biological response to environmental change
- and thesis-based graduate programs, The University of Guelph offers extensive research infrastructure. These include the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG), the Advanced Analysis Centre (Genomics facility, Phytotron, Mass Spectroscopy, Imaging facility, NMR, etc.), Hagen Aqualab, Centre for Ecosystem Management (CEM), Biodiversity Institute for Conservation Synthesis, Microbiome Preservation and Analysis Research Center (MiPARC), Arboretum, and field research stations including Ontario Ministry for Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness (OMAFA) sites, among others.

We welcome applicants from across the biological sciences, genomics, and related disciplines. A successful applicant will demonstrate potential for excellence, innovation, and impactful work in discovery-based research focused on the natural world. Applicants should demonstrate their ability to develop and lead independent projects, including success securing competitive funding. Further, potential for collaboration with industry, government, or community partners is an asset.

Importantly, successful applicants will have demonstrated potential for teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels as they will support the Bioinformatics thesis and course-based programs, and teach in the Department of Integrative Biology. Finally, applicants should demonstrate their commitment to training the next generation of scientists and fostering diversity, equity and inclusion within the research community.

**Join Us in Shaping our Departmental Community**

The University of Guelph resides on the ancestral lands of the Attawandaron people, and the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit and we offer our respect to our Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Métis neighbours as we strive to strengthen our relationships with them.

The University of Guelph is committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative, and collaborative environment. In the Department of Integrative Biology, we value diversity and inclusivity because we know that diversity in experiences and perspectives is vital to advancing innovation, critical thinking, complex problem solving, and the creation of a modern, representative academic community (EDI statement). The Department actively fosters a culture that is positive, collegial, and respectful of all members, and in which wellness and healthy work-life balance are valued along with (and indeed, contribute to) excellence in research and teaching. To support an inclusive and vibrant departmental culture, the Department maintains standing committees focused on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and Mental Health and Wellness and has developed specific recommendations for faculty hiring that incorporate these important issues.

The University of Guelph resides on the traditional lands and territory of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee and Huron Wendat. These lands are now home to a rich diversity of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people. We offer our respect and gratitude to our Indigenous neighbours and affirm our responsibility to realize our commitments to reconciliation through ongoing action. We are guided in this work by Bi-Naagward | It Comes into View, the Indigenous Initiatives Strategy.

The University of Guelph is the third largest employer in Guelph, a city of approximately 144,000 people, located about an hour drive west of Toronto, Ontario. The University of Guelph is a top-ranked comprehensive university in Canada with an enrolment of over 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students across over 40 academic units. The University is known for its commitment to student learning, innovative research, and collaboration with world-class partners. It is a unique place, with transformative research and teaching and a distinctive campus culture. People who learn and work here are shaped and inspired by a shared purpose: To Improve Life. Reflecting that shared purpose in every experience connected to our university positions us to create positive change, both here and around the world. Our university community shares a profound sense of social responsibility, a drive for international development, and an obligation to address global issues.

**Application Process**

1) Cover letter (1 page max)

2) Curriculum Vitae

3) Diversity Statement (1 page max) that describes the applicant’s philosophy and strategies for incorporating equity, diversity and