Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioinformatics

vor 2 Wochen

Genf, Genf, Schweiz SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Vollzeit
Job tasks


The team's projects are interdisciplinary, and aim at understanding the genetic determinism of skin colour patterns (especially in snakes and lizards) but also skin appendages (scales, hair, and spines) in amniotes.

Besides standard molecular biology methods, we use confocal and light-sheet microscopy imaging, electron microscopy, mass spectrometry and deep sequencing.

  • The University of Geneva (UNIGE) is highlyrenowned for its research and is among the best universities in the world. Geneva is an international city occupying a privileged geographical situation.
Profile requirements

Profile requirements:

  • PhD in bioinformatics within the last five years
  • Strong inner drive, independence, willingness to work in a highly interdisciplinary team
  • A good level of spoken and written English is essential
  • A background in evolutionary biology is preferred, but not required.

References
Tzika, Ullate-Agote, Zakany, Kummrow & Milinkovitch
Somitic positional information guides self-organized patterning of snake scales
Science Advances (2023)

Ullate-Agote & Tzika
Characterization of the Leucistic Texas Rat Snake Pantherophis obsoletus
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2021)
Ullate-Agote, Burgelin, Debry, Langrez, Montange, Peraldi, Daraspe, Kaessmann, Milinkovitch & Tzika
Genome mapping of a LYST mutation in corn snakes indicates that vertebrate chromatophore vesicles are lysosome-related organelles
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS

How to apply

Position contact information:

  • Name: Athanasia Tzika
  • Address:
  • Quai E. Ansermet 30 University of Geneva
  • Sciences
  • LANE


 Geneva, Geneva 121
  • Switzerland
  • Office telephone number:

Application deadline: 31 Aug 2023

Starting date to be defined.

  • The duration of the contract is one to two years.

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