BIO INFORMATICS POSTDOC POSITIONS – MAMMALIAN TRANSCRIPTOME EVOLUTION
Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Three postdoctoral positions (2 years with possible extensions up to 5 years) are available in the evolutionary genomics group of Henrik Kaessmann in the framework of major new projects funded by the European Research Council.
We are seeking highly qualified and motivated applicants with strong skills in computational biology/bioinformatics, preferably also with experience in data mining and comparative or evolutionary genome analysis.
Our group has been interested in a range of topics related to the functional evolution of genomes from primates (e.g., emergence of new genes and their functions) and other mammals (e.g., the origin and evolution of mammalian sex chromosomes). In the framework of a new major line of projects funded by the European Research Council, a large amount of qualitative and quantitative transcriptome data will be produced for a unique collection of tissues from representative mammals by the wet lab unit of the group using next generation sequencing technologies (RNA-Seq). The postdoctoral fellow will perform integrated evolutionary/bioinformatics analyses based on these data and available mammalian genomes. The specific project will be developed together with the candidate.
The language of the institute is English, and its members form an international group that is rapidly expanding. The institute is located in Lausanne, a beautiful city at Lake Geneva.
For more information on the group and our institute more generally, please refer to our website: http://www.unil.ch/cig/page7858_en.html
Please submit a CV, statement of research interest, and names of three references to: Henrik Kaessmann (Henrik.Kaessmann@unil.ch).
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Henrik Kaessmann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Center for Integrative Genomics
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
E-mail: Henrik.Kaessmann@unil.ch
Phone: +41 (0)21 692 3960
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