<div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Dear,<br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Can you please forward and share this email with your e-mail list ? It
is about a new PhD project in DSI-UHasselt. Please CC Prof. Jurgen Claesen (</span><span style="line-height:107%;color:rgb(94,94,94);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="mailto:jurgen.claesen@uhasselt.be">jurgen.claesen@uhasselt.be</a></span>)<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> on the
email.</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Thanks in advance, ziv shkedy &  Jurgen Claesen  . </font></span></p>

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<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b>A 4 years full time PhD project in DSI, UHasselt
& SCK-CEN.</b></span><br>
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b>Title: Integromics - Towards integration of big
biomolecular data to enable systems biology</b></span><br>
<br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The last decades, development of high-throughput
technologies such as next-generation sequencing, microarrays and mass
spectrometry has led to a paradigm shift in biology and life sciences. Where
previously one biomolecule (for example, a gene, or a protein) was studied as a
single entity, these experimental techniques allow to study a set of
biomolecules (for example, the genome or the proteome) in one go and in a
limited amount of time. While, at first, experiments were analysed
independently from each other, combining information of several experimental
techniques, and correlating them with environmental and/or clinical parameters,
is, nowadays, of great interest. As a consequence, novel statistical and
computational methodologies for the analysis of multi-omics datasets have to be
developed, allowing a multi-dimensional view on complex biological processes.</span><br>
<br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The PhD project is a joint project between
CenStat, DSI and SCK•CEN (</span><a href="https://www.sckcen.be/en" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">https://www.sckcen.be/en</span></a><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">). The thesis project is focused on methodologies for the
analysis of multi-omics datasets allowing a multi-dimensional view on complex
biological processes. In the current thesis project, we focus on methods for
the analysis of multi-omics datasets (gene expression, proteomics etc), that
are commonly generated by the three biology units of SCK•CEN (</span><a href="https://www.sckcen.be/en" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">https://www.sckcen.be/en</span></a><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">), which will improve the understanding of the biological
data of interest. The datasets for the project are already available and will
be provided (with R program to read the data) at the beginning of the project.</span><br>
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Starting date: during the second part of 2023.</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Project duration: 4 years.</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="">Student's profile:
MSc in biostatistics/statistics/bioinformatics or equivalent.<br>
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Supervision UHasselt: Prof. Ziv Shkedy (</span><a href="mailto:ziv.shkedy@uhasselt.be" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">ziv.shkedy@uhasselt.be</span></a><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">) and Prof. Jurgen claesen  (</span><a href="mailto:jurgen.claesen@uhasselt.be" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">jurgen.claesen@uhasselt.be</span></a><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">). </span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Supervision SCK-CEN Dr. Surya Gupta (</span><a href="mailto:surya.gupta@sckcen.be" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">surya.gupta@sckcen.be</span></a><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">).</span></font></p></div></div>