From Fredrik.Ronquist at nrm.se Tue Aug 3 17:49:21 2021 From: Fredrik.Ronquist at nrm.se (Fredrik Ronquist) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 15:49:21 +0000 Subject: [SocBiN] 20 Assistant Professorships in Data-Driven Life Sciences Message-ID: <02DEF0C4-069A-4328-8A0B-B3AA9678A3FB@nrm.se> 20 Tenure-Track Positions in Data-Driven Life Sciences The SciLifeLab and Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS) (see https://www.scilifelab.se/data-driven) is advertising 20 Fellows Positions for data-driven research in four target areas: Cell and Molecular Biology; Evolution and Biodiversity; Precision Medicine and Diagnostics; and Epidemiology and Infection Biology. The DDLS Fellows are five-year tenure-track positions targeting early-career group leaders. Each position is supported by a generous recruitment package, meant to cover the DDLS Fellow’s salary, two PhD students and two postdoc positions, as well as running costs. The program itself offers a range of additional resources and opportunities. Each of the positions is placed at one of the 11 Swedish institutions participating in the program. A few of the positions have been advertised separately on this list earlier this summer, but I think most of them might potentially be of interest to SocBIN subscribers. Read more about the DDLS Fellows positions and the DDLS program here: https://www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/fellows/. Application deadline is September 5. Fredrik Ronquist Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics Swedish Museum of Natural History -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gemma.atkinson at gmail.com Fri Aug 20 14:32:39 2021 From: gemma.atkinson at gmail.com (Gemma Atkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 14:32:39 +0200 Subject: [SocBiN] Post-doctoral scholarship in Lund University Message-ID: <495F9B0C-F9BE-4368-9649-13FC77446368@gmail.com> Dear all, Please help me spread the word about a post-doc position available my group in Lund University: https://atkinson-lab.com/post-doctoral-scholarship-in-bioinformatics/ In the Atkinson lab our aim is to make fundamental discoveries about the evolution of protein function and structure. We work mainly with bioinformatic methods, developing our own tools and taking advantage of the huge amounts of available genome and predicted proteome sequences. One of our main research directions concerns toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems of bacteria and bacteriophages. Our studies of toxSAS TA enzymes that dramatically inhibit bacterial growth though producing poisonous nucleotides, or modifying tRNA have recently been recently published in PNAS [1] and Molecular Cell [2], respectively, and our recent discovery of a hyperpromiscuous antitoxin domain that we have named Panacea is currently in revision [3]. As a mechanism of defence against bacteriophages, TAs have significance for developing new biotechnological tools, as well as understanding and eventually overcoming natural barriers to phage therapy for treating antibiotic resistant infections. Our work on toxin-antitoxins, and their evolution, structure, function and biotechnological applications was recently supported by a generous project grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation (https://kaw.wallenberg.org/grundforskning-djupt-inne-i-bakteriernas-arvsmassa ). The post-doctoral scholarship will be an opportunity for scientific development in protein bioinformatics and skill acquisition in coding and web development. Building on the success of our gene-neighbourhood analysis Python tool FlaGs (www.webflags.se) [4], you will be participating in the development of bioinformatic methods for the discovery of new exciting biology. The bioinformatic predictions will be tested experimentally in our group and through our collaborative network. References Jimmy, S. et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 117, 10500-10510 (2020). Kurata, T. et al. Molecular Cell 81(15): 3160-3170 Kurata, T. et al. bioRxiv, 2021.2005.2007.442387 (2021). Saha, C. K., Sanches Pires, R., Brolin, H., Delannoy, M. & Atkinson, G. C. Bioinformatics 37, 1312-1314 (2021). For more information email gemma.atkinson at med.lu.se -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arne at bioinfo.se Mon Aug 23 11:23:23 2021 From: arne at bioinfo.se (Arne Elofsson) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 11:23:23 +0200 Subject: [SocBiN] Assistant professors in Sweden Message-ID: Dear all As you might have heard we have just started an extremely well-funded program in data-driven life science in Sweden (total budget $300M). Now we are recruiting the first 20 (7 in Stockholm) assistant professors. These tenure-track positions are really well-funded ($2M in startup - priority access to an Nvidia Superpod etc). If you know of any good postdocs that you think might be interested could you send me their names so that I can contact them? The strict deadline is Sep 5 I think and one caveat is that there is a strict limit that the candidates should be maximum of five years from their PhD. More information can be found here: https://www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/fellows/ Yours Arne ----------------------------------------- Arne Elofsson Science for Life Laboratory Tel:+46-(0)70 695 1045 Stockholm University http://bioinfo.se/ Box 1031, Email: arne at bioinfo.se 17121 Solna, Sweden Twitter: https://twitter.com/arneelof Zoom: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/my/arneelof/ Scholar: http://scholar.google.se/citations?user=s3OCM3AAAAAJ ORCID: 0000-0002-7115-9751 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: