<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><h2 style="margin-top: 0.9em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.9em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">Postdoc position: Regulatory Genomics and cis-Regulatory Variation</h2>The <a href="http://med.kuleuven.be/lcb/" style="text-decoration: initial; color: rgb(83, 99, 104); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.77777862548828px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Laboratory of Computational Biology</a>, within <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.77777862548828px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">the Center for Human Genetics - University of Leuven, is seeking a highly motivated and experienced postdoctoral researcher to apply integrative genomics, computational models, and next-generation sequencing to further our understanding of genome regulation and chromatin conformation. </span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.77777862548828px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.77777862548828px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.77777862548828px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">You will develop computational approaches and work in close collaboration with the wet-lab, performing high-throughput experiments using RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, damID-Seq, DHS-Seq, FAIRE-Seq, and 4C-Seq/HiC. You will apply these methods to various systems, including eye development across Drosophila species, and different tumor types (melanoma, leukemia). The challenge is to integrate these data with computational predictions of cis-regulatory modules, and with publicly available data from (mod)ENCODE and TCGA, to ultimately characterize cis-regulatory changes that underlie morphological changes (Drosophila data) or that drive oncogenesis (cancer data). </span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.77777862548828px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.77777862548828px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.77777862548828px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">Qualifications:</span><ul style="margin: 5px 0px 10px 20px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.77777862548828px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; background-image: url(https://stijl.kuleuven.be/_i/icons/icon_bullet-levelone.png); position: static; z-index: auto; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">PhD degree in Life sciences or computational field</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; background-image: url(https://stijl.kuleuven.be/_i/icons/icon_bullet-levelone.png); position: static; z-index: auto; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Proven track record of high-impact publications in the field of computational biology, analysis of high-throughput data sets, data integration</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; background-image: url(https://stijl.kuleuven.be/_i/icons/icon_bullet-levelone.png); position: static; z-index: auto; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Solid experience with bioinformatics programming and statistics for bioinformatics, including scripting (e.g., Python), R (incl. Bioconductor), UCSC Genome Browser, Ensembl API, etc.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none; background-image: url(https://stijl.kuleuven.be/_i/icons/icon_bullet-levelone.png); background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Experience with pathway analysis and cis-regulatory sequence analysis is a plus.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none; background-image: url(https://stijl.kuleuven.be/_i/icons/icon_bullet-levelone.png); background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Thorough understanding of molecular and developmental biology, expertise on cancer biology is a plus.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; background-image: url(https://stijl.kuleuven.be/_i/icons/icon_bullet-levelone.png); position: static; z-index: auto; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Experience with software development and object-oriented programming (e.g., Java) is a plus.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; list-style: none; background-image: url(https://stijl.kuleuven.be/_i/icons/icon_bullet-levelone.png); background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Experience with data mining and machine learning is a plus.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; background-image: url(https://stijl.kuleuven.be/_i/icons/icon_bullet-levelone.png); position: static; z-index: auto; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Experience with the analysis of next-generation sequence data is a plus: whole exome re-sequencing, whole-genome re-sequencing, SNP/indel calling, CNV, Structural variation; RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq</li></ul><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.77777862548828px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">Links:</span><ul style="margin: 5px 0px 10px 20px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.77777862548828px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-top: 0px; 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font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.77777862548828px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">Highly motivated candidates can apply by sending a motivation letter, names and contact information for at least two references, publication list, and CV to </span><a href="mailto:stein.aerts@med.kuleuven.be" style="text-decoration: initial; color: rgb(83, 99, 104); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.77777862548828px; 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