The Metagenomics group at the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis at the Technical University of Denmark is seeking highly motivated candidates for three PhD/postdoctoral positions within next generation sequence analysis. Successful candidates will work in a dynamic team developing, implementing and applying techniques and procedures for high-throughput sequencing and next generation sequence analysis tools. The candidates will contribute to comparative metagenomic analysis of microbial communities associated with human, python snake, tarantula, venus flytrap as well as deep sea, snow and ice core samples from the South Pole, the North Pole and Greenland fjords. Projects will focus both on human health and on marine biotechnology/biodiscovery.
Contact: Associate professor, group leader Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén, [email protected]
The Center for Biological Sequence Analysis at the Technical University of Denmark was formed in 1993, and conducts basic research in the fields of bioinformatics and systems biology. The center is divided into ten specialist research groups, has a highly multi-disciplinary profile (biologists, biochemists, MDs, physicists, statisticians, and computer scientists) with a ratio of 2:1 of bio-to-nonbio backgrounds. CBS represents one of the large bioinformatics groups in academia in Europe.
- Candidates applying for a PhD scholarship should hold a master’s degree in bioinformatics, biology, biochemistry, engineering, computer science or similar.
- Postdoc candidates should hold a PhD degree in bioinformatics, biology, microbial ecology, engineering, computer science or similar.
- The candidate must have strong computational skills and prior experience with Unix/Linux command line environments, SQL, as well as either Perl, Python, Ruby or a comparable scripting language.
- The applicant must have prior experience with next generation sequencing data analysis and gene discovery.
- Knowledge of genome assembly and large-scale data mining is considered a plus.
- Knowledge of taxonomic classification and/or super trees is considered a plus.
- The applicant must be a good communicator and strong in written as well as spoken English.
Contact: Associate professor, group leader Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén, [email protected]
The Center for Biological Sequence Analysis at the Technical University of Denmark was formed in 1993, and conducts basic research in the fields of bioinformatics and systems biology. The center is divided into ten specialist research groups, has a highly multi-disciplinary profile (biologists, biochemists, MDs, physicists, statisticians, and computer scientists) with a ratio of 2:1 of bio-to-nonbio backgrounds. CBS represents one of the large bioinformatics groups in academia in Europe.