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 (jurgen.claesen@uhasselt.be) on the email.

Thanks in advance, ziv shkedy &  Jurgen Claesen  . 

 

A 4 years full time PhD project in DSI, UHasselt & SCK-CEN.

Title: Integromics - Towards integration of big biomolecular data to enable systems biology

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.

The PhD project is a joint project between CenStat, DSI and SCK•CEN (https://www.sckcen.be/en). 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 (https://www.sckcen.be/en), 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.

Starting date: during the second part of 2023.
Project duration: 4 years.

Student's profile: MSc in biostatistics/statistics/bioinformatics or equivalent.

Supervision UHasselt: Prof. Ziv Shkedy (ziv.shkedy@uhasselt.be) and Prof. Jurgen claesen  (jurgen.claesen@uhasselt.be). 
Supervision SCK-CEN Dr. Surya Gupta (surya.gupta@sckcen.be).