[BBC] Bioinformatics Post-Doc position for 2 years at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
Sacha van Hijum
svhijum at cmbi.ru.nl
Tue Sep 20 11:04:36 CEST 2011
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?VacatureNummer=010752
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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 at nizo.nl or svhijum at cmbi.ru.nl
P.O. Box 20, 6710 BA EDE, The Netherlands
Kernhemseweg 2, 6718 ZB EDE, The Netherlands
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