[BBC] Fwd: Postdoc Position in Lyon

[Jacques van Helden]

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From: Marie-France Sagot <Marie-France.Sagot at inria.fr> (by way of Jean- 
Paul Doignon)
Date: September 16, 2008 2:03:01 PM GMT+02:00
To: Anthony Labarre <alabarre at ulb.ac.be>, mlabbe at ulb.ac.be, Patrick  
Mardulyn <pmarduly at ulb.ac.be>, Jacques.Van.Helden at ulb.ac.be
Subject: Postdoc Position in Lyon

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Dear all,

Please, could you distribute around the call for a postdoc
position below? Many thanks!

kind regards, marie-france

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The main objective of the postdoc is to develop co-cladogenesis
inference methods in order to better understand how tight is the
association between symbionts, more specifically endosymbionts,
and their hosts. Some of the questions we wish to address are, how
often are symbionts horizontally transferred to other branches
of the host phylogenetic tree, how long do parasites persist inside
their host following the invasion of a new lineage, and what
processes underlie this dynamic gain/loss equilibrium? To address
the questions stated above using sequence data, island arthropod
communities, namely from Huahine, Raiatea, Moorea and Tahiti
in French Polynesia, will be examined as these allow to
establish recent patterns of loss and gain of infections.

This work will be conducted in the BAOBAB-BAMBOO teams of,
resp., the Lab. de Biometrie et Biologie Evolutive (Univ. Lyon 1),
and of the INRIA, France, in very close collaboration with the
"Evolutionary genetic of host-parasite interactions" team at the
LBBE, more particularly with Sylvain Charlat (CR1, CNRS) and a
co-supervised PhD student.

The postdoc is part of a vaster ANR-Blanc project on the
combinatorial exploration of the molecular landscape and evolution
of intimate species relations. The position is for one year renewable
once and must start no later than December 2008.

The candidate is expected to have a solid training in mathematics
(combinatorics, possibly also statistics) and either an initial
background or strong interest in biology. He/she should also enjoy
team-work. Atypical profiles are welcome.

For further enquiries, please contact Marie-France Sagot
(email: Marie-France.Sagot at inria.fr), ideally before Oct. 15, 2008,
with a CV, the names of three references who may be contacted for
further information and an informal letter explaining your
motivation for this position/work.