Postdoctoral Research Fellow in bioinformatics of eDNA is available at the Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT. The appointment is for two years. The workplace is at UiT in Troms. You must be able to start in the position no later than 6 months after receiving the offer. You will conduct research as a part of the newly established Norwegian Centre for Arctic Ecosystem Genomics (ArcEcoGen) and will be part of the methodological development working group.
The position will focus on developing new methods for processing and annotating DNA metabarcoding data. Our group has been analysing modern and ancient environmental samples using DNA metabarcoding for many years. We have a large collection of datasets corresponding to these samples, and a great deal of expertise on how to process them modularly. We now want to take advantage of this data collection to develop an efficient machine learning-based system capable of establishing cleaning and annotation rules for multiple broad taxonomic groups conditional on the ecosystem studied. The rules and annotations proposed by the system can be compared with those established empirically. While the architecture of the system remains to be defined in collaboration with the person recruited, it should be based on a database that can archive all the raw data and their annotation, and on, for example, a machine learning system backed up by this database. The position holder will also participate in teaching, outreach, and assistance to the ArcEcoGen members. It is expected that the position holder will participate in research group collaboration and professional networks nationally and internationally and will also be encouraged to obtain external funding from national and international funding agencies (e.g. RCN/EU). https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/223609/postdoctoral-research-fellow-in-bioinformatics-of-edna
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Prof. Inger Greve Alsos The Arctic University Museum of Norway UiT - The Arctic University of Norway NO-9037 Troms Norway Telephone: +47 77 62 07 96 Telefax: +47 77 64 51 05 Email: inger.g.alsos@uit.no NOTE THAT WE ARE RECRUITING 9 POSITIONS: https://uit.no/research/arcecogen#news_768037 http://en.uit.no/ansatte/inger.g.alsos http://ecogen.no/ https://www.iceagent.no/ http://svalbardflora.no/ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8610-1085
Inger Greve Alsos inger.g.alsos@uit.no
