[SocBiN] PhD fellowship in bioinformatics - tools for metagenomics

[Torbjørn Rognes]

Dear all,

Would you like to work with research and development of open source tools for metagenomics? A PhD research fellowship in bioinformatics is now available at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. The position is associated with the Centre for Computational Inference in Evolutionary Life Sciences (CELS) at UiO. Closing date for applications: 11 February 2016. For further details please visit the link below:

http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1567523/64290 <http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1567523/64290>


Metagenomics is the study of the genetic material in a sample containing a mix of different microbial organisms. These samples may have be obtained from such diverse locations as the vertebrate gut (e.g. human or fish), from the depths of the oceans, from the soil somewhere on earth and so forth. Recent advances in DNA sequencing technologies have enabled very large amounts of such data to be obtained for analysis. Extracting biological meaningful information from these huge datasets involve hard computational challenges that can only be solved by good algorithms and efficient parallelization. Interpreting the data correctly can advance science by a better understanding of, for example, the diversity of ecosystems or how the immune system responds to exposure to microorganisms.
We are seeking a highly motivated candidate to develop new or improved algorithms or tools for metagenomics with improved functionality, accuracy or speed that will be valuable for the scientific community. This is an opportunity to develop open source software in areas like error detection and removal, clustering, searching, classification, genome assembly as well as other areas of metagenomics. We have already contributed with tools like Swarm and VSEARCH. The successful candidate will be embedded in a vibrant bioinformatics environment connected to two Norwegian Centres of Excellence, and have access to first-rate computational infrastructure. The position is associated with the Centre for Computational Inference in Evolutionary Life Science (CELS) at UiO. The CELS research environment offers extensive experience with high-throughput sequencing and assembly of large genomes such as that of Atlantic cod. The candidate will be supervised by an interdisciplinary team of scientists and will collaborate with other PhD research fellows within CELS.

More about Swarm:
https://github.com/torognes/swarm <https://github.com/torognes/swarm>
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.593 <http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.593>
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1420 <http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1420>

More about VSEARCH:
https://github.com/torognes/vsearch <https://github.com/torognes/vsearch>

More about the atlantic cod genome:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature10342 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature10342>


Best wishes
Torbjørn Rognes

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