Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioinformatics

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 highly-renowned 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) (2020)

How to apply

**Position contact information**:

- Name: Athanasia Tzika
- Address:

- Quai E. Ansermet 30 University of Geneva - Sciences - LANE
- Geneva, Geneva 1211
- Switzerland- Office telephone number: +41223796775

**Application deadline: 31 Aug 2023**

**Starting date to be defined.**
- The duration of the contract is one to two years.