西班牙农业基因组学研究中心基因组学博士后职位

Tasks, Duties and Responsibilities:

A two year postdoc position is available within the recently funded project ‘Next generation tools to exploit genome diversity in domestic species’. Two research topics are possible, or a mixture of both:

1- Use of sequence data in genomic selection. We will investigate by simulation, but using real sequence data, what are the potential advantages of sequence over high density genotyping under realistic genetic architectures.

2- To develop a population genetics model that mimic domestication and breed structure in livestock. Focusing in the pig species and using genomewide sequence data, the goal is to adjust a population genetics model that can be used as neutral model to test for selection.

Laboratory: Dr. Miguel Pérez- Enciso

Educational requirements:
PhD in Biology

Required Skills:
- Numerical skills
- Population or Quantitative genetics background
- desired programming in some language

The Research Team:
The PhD project wil be supervised by Miguel Pérez-Enciso (ICREA professor, http://www.icrea.cat/Web/ScientificForm.aspx?key=255; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Lpl_-dcAAAAJ&hl=es), in cooperation with S.E. Ramos-Onsins. Recent related publications include:
Pérez-Enciso M. et al. On genetic differentiation between domestic pigs and Tibetan wild boars. Nature Genetics (correspondence), accepted.
Nevado, N., et al. 2014. Re-sequencing studies of non-model organisms using closely-related reference genomes: optimal experimental designs and bioinformatics approaches for population genomics. Mol. Ecol. 23: 1764–1779.
Pérez-Enciso, M. 2014. Genomic relationships computed from either next generation sequence or array SNP data. J. Anim. Breed. Genet. 131:85-96.
Ramírez O, et al. 2014. Genome data from a sixteenth century pig illuminate modern breed relationships. Heredity doi: 10.1038/hdy.2014.81
Groenen et al. 2012. Analyses of pig genomes provide insight into porcine demography and evolution. Nature 491:393-8.
The research will be developed in the recently built Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (www.cragenomica.es), based on campus of Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona (www.uab.es).

Jobs conditions:

Contract duration: the contract is available for one year and extendable to an additional year.
Hours/week: Full time

Application deadline: 31st March 2015
Start date: May 2015

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