Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Portugal - Post doc position in evolutionary cell biology The Computational Genomics Laboratory (www.evocell. org) is looking for a post-doctoral fellow to work on the origins and evolution of intracellular compartmentalizatio n and protein trafficking pathways. This involves a mixture of small-scale sequence and structural analysis as well as global genomic analyses, combined with the design and implementation of databases, visualization and querying
systems.
Unicellular pathogens such as Trypanosoma and Plasmodia are of special interest to us, as well as Fungi and Metazoa. This post would suit someone with prior experience in Bioinformatics and/or computer science, with an interest in evolution, genomics and cell biology. We favor experience with scripting (Perl and/or Python), databases (SQL), familiarity with molecular evolution and protein structure. Extremely
motivated applicants with any combination of the above skills will be considered. The fellowship would be initially for two years.
The successful candidate would be encouraged to apply for independent funding from international funding bodies. The Institute "Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia" (www.igc.gulbenkian .pt) is located in Oeiras, a small sea- side town 12 Km away from Lisbon, next to several other research institutions. We are a private research institute with roughly 30 research groups, pursuing fundamental questions in biomedical sciences using interdisciplinary approaches.
We are part of a research consortium with two other research institutes, and within this there is wide interest in computational and theoretical biology (http://compbio. igc.gulbenkian. pt). The institute promotes the organization of workshops, courses and various types of meetings or visitors programs (e.g. EMBO workshop on Light Microscopy on Living Cells, PhD program in Computational Biology and regular Bioinformatics Training program both taught mostly by international
faculty) and it has a generous budget for inviting international speakers.
All communications are done in English (even within teams that only have Portuguese members). And the quality of life is great in Portugal (the Institute is 5 min walking distance from beach), and the cost of living is still lower than in most other places in the European Union. Applications in PDF format will be accepted by email only (to jleal at igc.gulbenkian. pt ) until February 15th, 2008, and will include a short CV, a motivation letter, two recommendation letters or contacts of two references jleal@igc.gulbenkia n.pt
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