Stillingstittel:
PhD position in bioinformatics, microbial ecology and meta-omics - ref.no 16/02681

Stillingsbeskrivelse:

Global challenges regarding energy and climate change, the environment, health, food safety, technology and renewable solutions, use and conservation of land and natural resources, and development of the bio-economy, requires greater effort. NMBU is well equipped to conduct further research in these fields. NMBU's expertise spans entire value chains and includes both basic and applied research.

 

On 1 January 2014, the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science and the University of Life Sciences merged and became -NMBU, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. NMBU has 1700 employees and 5100 students, and is currently located on two campuses - Ås, about 30 km south of Oslo, and Adamstuen in Oslo. In 2019, the new research- and education-building for veterinary science will be completed and all of NMBU will then be located at Campus Ås.

 

Further information about NMBU is available on www.nmbu.no

Jobbnorge ID: 126218

The Biostatistics as well as Protein Engineering and Proteomics group (PEP group) at the Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science has a 3-year PhD position available in the project ""Back to basics: simplifying microbial communities to decrypt complex interactions"", which is financed through a grant of the  Norwegian Research Council. The project runs from August 2016.

 

IKBM is located at Ås Campus 30 km south of Oslo and has approximately 130 employees spread over 12 research groups. The position will interact between the Biostatistics group and the Protein Engineering and Proteomics (PEP) Group. The Biostatistics group does research in the intersection between biology and statistics/computer science, and currently consists of six senior researchers, one postdoc, five PhD students and a number of master students. The PEP group is a large international group (over 40 personnel) with a focus on basic and applied enzymology, bioprocessing, microbiology and anaerobic digestion. The project will also engage in close collaboration with researchers at CIGENE (The Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences (IHA), Centre for Integrative Genetics), which includes experimental biologists as well as experts on bioinformatics and mathematical modeling.

 

 

Project

The PhD candidate will be associated with the "Back to Basics" project, which seeks delineate symbiotic interactions between uncultured microbes that exert major influence in anaerobic digestion of organic substrates. This project will apply a progressive interdisciplinary approach to decrypt microbial communities that perform the industrial relevant process of biomass conversion. The project aims to advance our understanding of the microbial ecology of biomass turnover to another level by capitalizing on newly created insight into synergistic interactions between uncultured microbial lineages. The project will develop low-complexity biomass-degrading communities and employ predictive genome-reconstruction technologies to generate high precision genomes for all constituents. Community dynamics during biomass degradation will be visualized by mapping temporal transcriptomic and proteomic data over the lifetime of a growth cycle. Genes of interest will have their importance evaluated by reverse genetics (where possible), and suitable candidates will be characterised in detail and their pertinence to industrial applications interrogated. The project is expected to advance scientific understanding within key Norwegian research activities at the host university that all share a core reliance on conversion of plant cell wall material. Specifically, these activities entail: (1) polysaccharide converting enzymes in a biorefining context, (2) enhanced production of biogas and (3) agricultural feed production and conversion.
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Arbeidsgiver Navn: Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige unive

Arbeidsgiver adresse: Universitetstunet 3 1430 ÅS

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Akershus

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Hvordan søke: Annet - se fritekst

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år