Dear all, there is a 2 year bioinformatics Post-Doc position at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, the Netherlands. Closing date: 10th of October 2011. For those interested, please see below for details. Best regards, Sacha van Hijum Job Profile This job consists of two parts (i) further development on a genomics database (MicroGear) in a collaboration between the CMBI Bacterial Genomics Group (Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre) and the Top Institute Food and Nutrition (TIFN), and (ii) an NWO BigGrid funded position for making assembly and annotation pipelines for (meta) genome analysis grid / cloud computing enabled. TIFN is a unique public/private partnership that generates vision on scientific breakthroughs in food and nutrition, resulting in the development of innovative products and technologies that respond to consumer demands for safe, tasty and healthy foods. In TIFN the research is flexibly organized in themes and projects, and jointly decided on and guided by the research and industry partners. All research is carried out in the laboratories of the research organisations by multidisciplinary teams. These teams comprise leading scientists who are collaborating to achieve scientific breakthroughs of high industrial relevance. TIFN plays a major role in providing its industry partners with leads for the development of new, healthy foods with regard to major health concerns such as obesity and metabolic syndrome. The MicroGear development position is within a cross-theme bacterial genomics and bioinformatics platform (BG001; coordinator and project leader Dr. S. van Hijum). The Bacterial Genomics group strongly collaborates with the Netherlands Bioinformatics Center (NBIC) in which the metagenomics taskforce is being setup (principle investigator Dr. S. van Hijum) within the BioAssist II framework. Requirements A PhD or preferably higher in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science or Informatics is required, with a clear interest or experience in one or more of the following: * Database and software design, development, implementation, management and maintenance * Programming skills in Python or other relevant language * Bioinformatics or Computational Biology; Genomics Organization Unit Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics The Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics is the Dutch national centre for computational molecular sciences. The institute pursues a rigorous research program with topics ranging from computational small-molecule chemistry to bioinformatics. The institute's facilities, databases and software packages are available to external scientists. The CMBI is strongly committed to a series of educational projects, ranging from high school to postgraduate courses and from local university student courses to international workshops. The CMBI was founded in1985 as the Computer Assisted Organic Synthesis / Computer Assisted Molecular Modelling Centre, or CAOS/CAMM for short. At the beginning, the main emphasis of the institute was on small-molecule services, but bioinformatics has always been represented. In 1999, the number of staff involved in bioinformatics was increased and the main emphasis shifted towards bioinformatics. At the same time, the institute was renamed the Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, CMBI, to express this shift in focus. The Bacterial Genomics group (Bamics) was founded in the year 2000 by Prof. Dr. R. Siezen and is currently headed by Dr. S. van Hijum. It is part of the Nijmegen Center of Molecular Life Sciences (NCMLS) and the Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics (CMBI). The CMBI is among the largest bioinformatics departments in the Netherlands producing dozens of high impact peer-reviewed publications each year. It consists of 4 research groups (Prof. G. Vriend, Prof. M. Huynen, Prof. J. de Vlieg and Dr. van Hijum) with strong connections with the NBiC, center of excellence and the largest bioinformatics cluster in the Netherlands. The Bamics group focuses on studying the genomes of food-relevant bacteria using bioinformatics techniques in collaboration with the Top Institute of Food and Nutrition (TIFN; previously Wageningen Center for Food Sciences, Wageningen), NIZO food research (Ede), the Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Microorganisms (Delft), and the Netherlands Bioinformatics Center (NBiC; Nijmegen). Its PhD students are funded by the Kluyver Center, NBiC, TIFN and other sources. The staff is funded directly by NIZO food research and TIFN. Methodologies that were developed in the framework of WCFS, TIFN, Kluyver and NBiC projects have been used frequently by many Dutch and international industrial partners and knowledge institutes. More information and online application via this link: http://www.umcn.nl/OVERUMCSTRADBOUD/WERKENBIJ/Pages/Vacature.aspx?VacatureNu... -- Dr. Sacha van Hijum Group leader CMBI Bacterial Genomics Group leader Bioinformatics NIZO food research B.V. Bioinformatics coordinator Top Institute Food and Nutrition T: +31(0)318 659 570 F: +31(0)318 650 400 M: +31(0)624782895 E: sacha.vanhijum@nizo.nl or svhijum@cmbi.ru.nl P.O. Box 20, 6710 BA EDE, The Netherlands Kernhemseweg 2, 6718 ZB EDE, The Netherlands