Stillingstittel:
Postdoc position for the ERACoSysMed project COLOSYS

Stillingsbeskrivelse:

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Jobbnorge ID: 128061

The Department of Biology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology is currently recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow for the ERACoSysMed project COLOSYS - A systems approach to preventing drug resistance in colon cancer. The project is financed by ERA-NET

Job description

The position is for a period of two and a half years, starting preferably 1 October 2016. Applicants must hold a PhD in one of the relevant research areas described below (see also the more detailed requirements). The COLOSYS project (www.colosys.org) has as its main goal the development of approaches to predict the development of drug resistance of colon cancer. These predictions require computational tools and mathematical models (e.g. Boolean models) of colon cancer cells, to simulate how molecular interactions drive a colon cancer patient's response to medicine. These predictions subsequently need to be tested in the lab, through various experiment types: cell culture, organoids, and patient derived xenografts.

The COLOSYS project is one of 3 projects (COLOSYS, DrugLogics and Crossover Research 2.0) all operating under the DrugLogics umbrella (www.DrugLogics-NTNU.org), which is embedded in the Digital Life centre at NTNU, so you will be part of an interdisciplinary group of 10 newly recruited people working together on complementary tasks, involving thee NTNU departments: Department of Biology (Gløshaugen campus); Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine (Øya campus); and Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies (Dragvoll campus). For the COLOSYS project we currently seek a talented, enthusiastic and creative scientist who will work closely together with the other team members.

Examples of tasks to be carried out in the COLOSYS project are:

• Develop software tools for data analysis and computer model simulations.
• Develop cancer omics data analysis approaches to generate information for computational models of cancer.
• Design of curation guidelines and standards for causal statements.
• Assembly of existing resources, design of a 'causal statement ontology', and collaboration with causal statement resource providers.
• Create a collection of causal statements that can be used in a computational signal transduction network.
• Optimize the design of the Knowledge Commons in collaboration with colleagues of the DrugLogics initiative (www.DrugLogics-NTNU.org), for signal transduction pathway model building.

Qualifications

We seek candidates that are motivated and able to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration, have good communication and networking skills and, are proactive and forthcoming, and able to work independently if needed.

You will have the following qualifications:

• PhD in Computer Sciences, Bioinformatics, Mathematics, Physics or related area.
• Track record in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology.
• Excellent programming skills in Java and C++.
• Skilled in R/Bioconductor.

Preferred additional qualifications:

• Experience with cellular pathway modelling.
• Efficient at learning new computer languages and computational tools when needed.

Terms of employment

The appointment of the Postdoc will be made according to Norwegian guidelines for universities and university colleges and to the general regulations regarding university employees.

NTNU's personnel policy objective

Minstelønn: 0

Maksimal lønn: 0

Arbeidsgiver Navn: NTNU - Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelig

Arbeidsgiver adresse: Realfagbygget, NTNU 7491 TRONDHEIM

Job kort beskrivelse:
Biologists, botanists, zoologists and related professionals

Land: Norge

Region: Sør-Trøndelag

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

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Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år