START DATE:
From 1/04/07

TERMS

30 months

DESCRIPTION

The Computational Biology (CB) group of the Department of Plant Systems Biology is seeking a post-doctoral researcher to participate in the project EMERALD, funded by the European FP6 programme. The EMERALD project is a Coordination Action aiming to develop quality control and quality assessment procedures to enhance the data quality of transcriptome microarrays.

RESPONSIBILITIES

This project is coordinated by the CB group, and the main tasks include the organisation of a series of topical workshops to discuss strategies to develop and implement QA/QC measures throughout the microarray community. In addition, the CB group will determine the effects of quality metrics and implementation of QA/QC measures to enhance the efficacy of transcriptome compendium analysis.

REQUIREMENTS

The candidate that we seek ideally is trained in Biology and/or Bioinformatics, but it will be a significant advantage to have previous experience with the organisation of workshops and project management. Preferably the candidate has experience with the analysis of microarray data, although it should be noted that the main task will not be scientific but rather to take care of logistics and project management.

ABOUT US

The Department of Plant Systems Biology (PSB), located in Ghent, is part of the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB). VIB/PSB offers excellent opportunities to develop multidisciplinary projects that combine plant molecular biology and genetics, functional genomics, bioinformatics and computational biology. A brand new spacious facility with a well trained staff of 200 members and state of the art equipment make PSB a leading research institution in the areas of plant and systems biology. Our campus is ideally positioned at the interface between academia and industry and is one of the largest biotechnology centers in Europe.


Ghent is a beautiful and welcoming city of 230,000 people. It benefits from a large student population as well as a dynamic cultural environment. It is only 35 minutes away from Brussels and about two hours away from Amsterdam, London and Paris.

HOW TO APPLY

If you are interested in this position, please send by e-mail your CV and three names of referees to Martin Kuiper (makui[at]psb.ugent.be) before February 1, 2007. For more information about PSB-CB please visit http://www.psb.ugent.be/cbd/