DESCRIPTION

POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
E-FUNGI: COMPARATIVE FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS REF 679/04

Applications are invited for a BBSRC-ffunded project, available for 3 years from October 2004, to work on a project to develop an e-Science Infrastructure for Comparative Functional Genomics in Fungal Species. The project is collaborative, involving experimental biologists, bioinformaticians and computer scientists at Manchester and Exeter. The successful applicant will be working as part of a team, in particular focusing on the statistical analysis of genomic and functional genomics
data.

REQUIREMENTS

Applicants should have, or be about to obtain, a PhD in a relevant area. The person appointed must have good team working skills as they will be expected to interact with other members of the team in order to help make the resulting tools available to biologists via a service-based grid infrastructure. The successful applicant must also have good mathematical skills and previous experience in Bioinformatics or computational biology. In addition he/she should have a good appreciation of appropriate statistical and computational methodologies, although some of this experience can be gained during the project.

Experience of machine learning or Statistics would be advantageous.

further details are availble from
http://www.man.ac.uk/news/vacancies/research.html#679

Starting salary will be in the range £18,893 up to £24,951 per annum. Informal enquires should be directed to Dr Magnus Rattray (Email: magnus[at]cs.man.ac.uk) or Prof. Norman Paton (Email: norm[at]cs.man.ac.uk).

HOW TO APPLY

Application forms and further particulars are available from the Office of the Director of Personnel, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL tel: +44 (0)161 275 2028; fax: +44 (0)161 275 2471; e-mail: personnel[at]man.ac.uk. Quote ref 679/04. Closing date 12 July 2004.