Stillingstittel:
Postdoctoral fellow within bioinformatics - ref.no 16/02526

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: 125974

The Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Sciences at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) has a vacant 3 year Post Doctoral-position related to bioinformatics

 

The Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (IKBM) employs a staff of about 150 people. The Department is internationally renowned in Food Science, molecular biology of microorganisms, genetic techniques, microbial ecology and bioinformatics. The Department has also a state of the art advanced analysis equipment park and the pilot plant for food production in small scale is under modernization.

 

 

Research Project

DigiSal is a project within Digital Life (a framework for exploring large data). DigiSal aims at utilizing the genome information from the recently sequences salmon genome for metabolic reconstruction, and understanding host-bacterial interactions.

 

 

Main tasks

The main task will be to develop bioinformatics tools to investigate host-bacterial interactions within the frame of the DigiSal project

The specific tasks will be

• Development of novel metagenome assembly approaches
• Develop bioinformatics tools for strain resolution analyses of the microbiota
• Use of graph-based approaches to investigate host bacterial interactions
• Link phylogenetic and functional information
• Deployment of bioinformatics tools to be used within Digital Life.

 

 

Academic Qualifications

The main purpose of the post-doctoral position is to qualify for work in high-level scientific positions. A PhD degree is required.

 

Required Academic qualifications

• Strong background in applied mathematics, namely in the fields of operational research and statistics.
• Capable of developing optimization models for linear and integer problems.
• Good knowledge in meta-heuristics such as simulated annealing, tabu search and genetic algorithm.
• Good knowledge in graph theory.
• Knowledge in multi-criteria optimization.
• Good knowledge on developing decision support systems, preferentially in object oriented languages.
• General knowledge in databases.
• Experience with QIIME and Usearch pipelines for 16S rRNA gene analyses
• Experience with R pipelines for IDBA shotgun metagenome sequence analyses

 

 

Personal skills

Required personal skills

• Good team spirit
• Ability to adapt to multicultural environments and new scientific challenges
• Good ability to communicate
• Active in finding new collaborations

 

Minstelønn: 0

Maksimal lønn: 0

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

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år