Postdoc (M/W) On Genotype-Phenotype Mapping At Comparative (Phylogenetic) Scales

13 Nov 2023

Job Information

Organisation/Company

CNRS

Department

Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés

Research Field

Biological sciences

Environmental science

Researcher Profile

Recognised Researcher (R2)

Country

France

Application Deadline

1 Dec 2023 - 23:59 (UTC)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Hours Per Week

35

Offer Starting Date

1 Jan 2024

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

The recruited person will be responsible for assembling one or more genome datasets for one or more groups of species, as well as associated phenotypic data. Then, the recruited person will use the Pelican method to identify the sites and genes associated with the phenotypes, and analyze the results. Finally, the candidate will carry out developments based on neural networks to search for genotype-phenotype associations on a large scale, and will compare the results to Pelican.

The recruited person will carry out bioinformatics activities. These activities include: collection and evaluation of phenotype data, downloading of large genomic datasets, construction of gene families, alignment, alignment cleaning, construction of gene trees, use of Pelican, analysis by site and by gene results, search for confounding factors (GC-biased recombination, recurrent positive selection, etc.), development and training of a neural network (the architecture will be borrowed from existing work).

The recruited person will work at LEHNA (UMR CNRS 5023). The postdoctoral contract is part of the ANR DEELOGENY project aimed at evaluating the relevance of machine learning approaches on a set of four “Work Packages” in phylogenomics, and bringing together teams from 5 laboratories in Paris and Lyon. More precisely, the postdoc will work on Work Package 4 - coordinated by Julien Clavel and Philippe Veber (LBBE), aiming to research genotype- phenotype associations at the phylogenetic scale.

Requirements

Research Field

Biological sciences

Education Level

PhD or equivalent

Research Field

Environmental science

Education Level

PhD or equivalent

Languages

FRENCH

Level

Basic

Research Field

Biological sciences

Years of Research Experience

1 - 4

Research Field

Environmental science

Years of Research Experience

1 - 4

Additional Information

Eligibility criteria

The person recruited will have knowledge on organismal biology (anatomy, paleontology), bioinformatics (genomics, algorithmic, statistical tools, machine learning, programming), and genomics (evolution of genomes, gene duplications and losses, biased gene conversion , natural selection). The candidate should be able to interact with researchers from different fields (paleontology, ecology, genomics, bioinformatics), have good communication and writing scientific papers skills.

Website for additional job details

https: // emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR5023-JULCLA-002/Default.aspx

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés

Country

France

City

VILLEURBANNE

Where to apply

Website

https: // emploi.cnrs.fr/Candidat/Offre/UMR5023-JULCLA-002/Candidater.aspx

Contact

City

VILLEURBANNE

Website

https:// umr5023.univ-lyon1.fr/

STATUS: EXPIRED