RESPONSIBILITIES

A position is available for a Postdoctoral Research fellow to work in the area of microbial metagenomics. The appointee will analyze data gathered from a large multi-centre study on the relationship between the intestinal microbiota and health in elderly people, specifically by analyzing compositional and functional bacterial microbiome data. For more information on ELDERMET: http://eldermet.ucc.ie

The study includes researchers from University College Cork, Cork University Hospital and Teagasc Moorepark and will exploit cutting edge metagenomics and clinical analysis of diverse health indices in a large cohort of elderly subjects, including unique longitudinal measurements. The appointee will be based in UCC and will report to Dr. Paul O’Toole, Department of Microbiology.

The project will involve analysis of microbial community composition datasets (SSU rRNA genes amplicons) generated by HT next-generation sequencing methodologies. There will also be the opportunity to work with shot-gun metagenomic datasets.

REQUIREMENTS

The post would be suitable for a bioinformatician with a strong background in genome sequence analysis, sequence alignment, clustering analysis and related programming.

LOCALE: University College Cork, Ireland

TERMS

This is a full-time fixed term contract appointment.

SALARY & COMPENSATION

This is a position on the CHIU Senior Postdoctoral salary scale reflective of experience.

HOW TO APPLY

Please send covering letter and CV to Dr. Paul O’Toole, Department of Microbiology UCC (pwotoole[at]ucc.ie; 021 490 3997).

DEADLINE: 17:00, Friday December 18th, 2009