The Research and Innovation Centre at the Fondazione Edmund Mach (CRI-FEM) is a major international research institution with strong and expanding research interests in Fruit Genomics, Quality Health and Nutrition of Agricultural Products, Agro-ecosystems Sustainability, Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology. CRI-FEM hosts GMPF, an International PhD Program in Genomics and Molecular Physiology of Fruit Crops and Fox-Lab, an international initiative in forest and wood research.

To support interdisciplinary research and develop systems-level integrative approaches connecting genotype to phenotype, the CRI-FEM has now established a Computational Biology Centre (CBC). The CBC will engage with the research departments making the best of the available multi-omics datasets, and generate model-driven datasets, with a special focus on next generation sequencing genome wide analyses.

To drive forward this strategic expansion, the CRI-FEM is seeking to attract up to 15 high calibre scientists in key areas covered by the CBC (for more information on the CBC or informal inquiries on the advertised positions please contact Dr. Duccio Cavalieri at duccio.cavalieri [AT] fmach.it).

Positions available:

3 Group Leaders

GL1. Functional genomics and gene regulatory networks
GL2. Structural and comparative plant bioinformatics
GL3. Methods for NGS-based metagenomics data analysis

3 Research Scientists

RS1. Computational models of Small RNAs and epigenomic networks
RS2. High throughput screening of plant bioactive molecules
RS3. Systems biology of food-host-microbe interactions

4 Research Assistants

RA1. Systems administrator for the HPC (High Performance Computing)
RA2. RNA-SEQ and NGS data analyst
RA3. Pathway analysis-database curator and administrator
RA4. High-throughput screening platform, yeast cell based assays

5 Postdoctoral Fellows

PF1. Pathway bioinformatics and inference
PF2. Mathematical modeling and quantitative genetics applied to breeding
PF3. Methods for algorithmic and integrative metagenomics
PF4. In Vino Veritas: Evolutionary Systems Biology of wine yeasts
PF5. Biostatistics and Data Analysis for NGS sequencing and Omics Data

Nr. Job Positions : 15

Application Deadline: 31/07/2012

Further details:
http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess