RESPONSIBILITIES

The lab of Patrick Lemaire, at the Institute for Developmental Biology of Marseille Luminy (France), is seeking a creative and independent post-doctoral colleague to design and use innovative strategies to automatically reconstruct and mathematically analyze the developmental gene regulatory networks of the ascidian, Ciona intestinalis, one of the closest relatives of vertebrates (see Lemaire, Smith and Nishida, 2008, Current Biology 18: R620-R631).

The project will initially involve the prediction of cis-regulatory region activity, and its integration with gene expression, genome evolution and transcription factor DNA-binding specificity data.

REQUIREMENTS

Ideal applicants will have a background in computational biology with an interest in experimentally testing their predictions and a track record of international publication. Previous experience in Gene Regulatory Network reconstruction and analysis starting from diverse data types would be a plus, but is not required. The working language of the laboratory is English and no previous knowledge of French is expected.

TERMS

The position is funded for two years with a flexible starting date in the second half of 2009.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

More information on the Lemaire lab can be found at http://crfb.univ-mrs.fr/ciona/lemaire/

HOW TO APPLY

Interested candidates with a track record of international publication should send Dr. Patrick Lemaire (lemaire[at]ibdml.univ-mrs.fr) a cover letter explaining why they are skilled and motivated for the job and a CV including a list of publications and e-mail contacts for three qualified referees.

DEADLINE: June 15, 2009