Postdoc position Machine Learning for network-based analysis
Job description: The DBN group headed by K. Marchal has a vacancy for a postdoctoral researcher interested in a combination of research and teaching (3 year Dr Assistant position). The research will focus on the development and application of systems genetics approaches to identify driver pathways underlying adaptive clonal phenotypes. Innovative methods based on state-of-the-art datamining techniques need to be developed in order to integrate genomic information derived from cohorts of samples with phenotypic information. Methods will be applied to study the evolvability of network rewiring and interclonal interactions during adaptive responses in cancer and/or microbial systems. Next to research also an active involvement in teaching and student supervision is required.
Context: The DBN group headed by K. Marchal is located at the engineering faculty of Ghent University (IDLab/IMEC). The group’ s research focus is on bioinformatics method development. The group is specialized in combining advanced datamining techniques with biological principles (http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/DBN/) and has major expertise in network inference and network-based data-integration.
Key words: data sciences, machine learning, cancer genomics, clonal systems
Expertise
• You hold a PhD degree in Sciences; in Bioinformatics, in Applied Biological Sciences (Bioengineering); in Engineering
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Strong interest in research and
teaching bioinfomatics
related courses
• Strong interest in method development and data mining
• Strong interest in interdisciplinary research
• Knowledge in molecular biology or genomics is a plus
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Perl or Python, as well as Linux systems.
• Fluency in spoken and written English is a strong requirement
For further information: contact
Application deadline: November 26
Application through the UGent site is mandatory: https://www.ugent.be/en/work/vacancies/assisting/applyonline-aap.htm
-- Prof. Kathleen Marchal Dept. of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University Dept. of Information Technology, IDLab, imec, Dept. of Genetics, University of Pretoria, South Africa http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/DBN iGent Toren, Technologiepark 126, 9052 Gent, Belgium