Postdoctoral Research Positions—Computational Phylogenetics/Phyloinformatic
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Original Posting Web Page: http://iptol.iplantcollaborative.org/employment.html
Keywords: bioinformatics, high performance computing, phylogenetics, tree visualization
Posted on: Monday, August 24th, 2009
Job Details:
Multiple postdoctoral positions are available for research and cyberinfrastructure development associated with reconstructing the green plant tree of life. Positions are sponsored by the iPlant Collaborative (http://iplantcollaborative.org), which is supporting cyberinfrastructure across the plant sciences. Individuals would work with one of a number of identified investigators focusing on specific issues in phylogenetic cyberinfrastructure development. These include high performance computing and scalable tree construction (Alexis Stamatakis—Technical University, Munich; email: EMAIL OBFUSCATED), data set assembly (Doug Soltis—U Florida; email: EMAIL OBFUSCATED, Pam Soltis—U Florida; email: EMAIL OBFUSCATED; Michael Donoghue—Yale; email: EMAIL OBFUSCATED), gene tree reconciliation (Todd Vision—UNC; email: EMAIL OBFUSCATED), character evolution (Brian O’Meara—U Tennessee; email: EMAIL OBFUSCATED), and tree visualization (Michael Sanderson, UC-Davis; email: EMAIL OBFUSCATED). Fellows can anticipate working in a highly collaborative, multi-institutional context, with some travel between working groups encouraged. In addition to undertaking basic research in phylogenetic methods, postdocs will be expected to provide advice on and work in collaboration with cyberinfastructure developers in the iPlant team. Qualifications include familiarity with the data, methods, and software of phylogenetic analysis, and programming experience at least at the level of a scripting language such as PERL. Individual PIs may have additional requirements. Inquiries should be directed to any of the Grand Challenge Team members listed above. Positions are available immediately. A full description of the iPToL (iPlant Tree of Life) project can be found online at http://iptol.iplantcollaborative.org. The institutions involved in this program may be Affirmative Action and/or Equal Opportunity Employers.
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Send questions about this position to: Michael Sanderson
E-Mail: EMAIL OBFUSCATED
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Categories Posted To:
Databases / Information Retrieval / Data Mining, Graphics / Visualization, Numerical/Scientific Computing / HPC / Data-Intensive Scalable Computing, Scientific/Medical Informatics, Theory / Algorithms
