04 PhD and postdoc fellows: Meta-Omics Analysis of Microbial Communities 1219 views

The Faculty of Biosciences (Biovit) and the Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) at Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) has four vacant positions, funded by Novo Nordisk Fonden, the Research Council of Norway (RCN) and the ERA-Net BlueBio Cofund.

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Generation of metagenomics datasets and population genomes that are representative of host-associated microbiomes.
• Functional meta-omics characterization of microbiota using metabolic reconstruction and quantitative metatranscriptomics / metaproteomics.
• Identification of key metabolic pathways using regulatory network analysis of meta-omics data generated from microbiome(s) as well as host tissues and/or metadata.

Requirements:

• For PhD position: Applicant must hold M.Sc degree in microbiology/bioinformatics, with specific emphasis on functional microbial multi-omic data analysis.
• Fluent programming skills in at least one language.
• For Postdoctoral fellows: The main purpose of the post-doctoral position is to qualify for work in high-level scientific positions. A PhD degree is required.
• PhD degree in microbiology/bioinformatics, with specific emphasis on functional microbial multi-omic data analysis
• Fluent programming skills in at least one language.

 Experience:

• Methods for microbial community DNA extraction, shotgun metagenomic sequencing, assembly and binning.
• Methods for microbial community protein extraction, protein purification and metaproteomic data generation.
• Bioinformatics analysis of DNA and/or protein data
• Bioinformatics processing and analysis of large meta/multi-omics datasets.
• Molecular laboratory and/or animal experimental work
• Single-cell sorting/sequencing
• Network-based analysis of multi-omics data

How to apply:

• Apply online