Interdisciplinary Research in DNA Microarray Data Analysis & Modelling
Department of Mathematics, UMIST
Postdoctoral Research Associate (up to four years)
DNA Microarrays are a revolutionary technology allowing biologists to
measure the levels of expression of thousands of genes at a stroke.
The methodology is new - less than a decade old - and interesting
mathematical and statistical problems arise at every stage of the
experiments, from design and basic data analysis and through to
interpretation and modelling of gene control networks. The UMIST
component of this interdisciplinary research programme will concentrate
on techniques for modelling and statistical analysis. We will be
particularly interested in time-series data from experiments that,
for example, take snapshots of gene expression throughout a
cycle of cell replication.
This project is part of a consortium coordinated by Prof. Olaf
Wolkenhauer (Systems Biology Research & Data Engineering, University of
Rostock, Germany) and visiting Reader in UMIST's Department of
Mathematics. His main UMIST collaborators are Prof. David Broomhead and
Dr. Mark Muldoon, both also in the Department of Mathematics.
The consortium also includes two experimental groups: Dr. Paul Kellam's,
at UCL, who study host-virus interactions and Prof. Colin Smith's, at
Surrey, who study Streptomyces Coelicolor. Other mathematically-inclined
collaborators include the Prof. David Lowe and Dr. Ian Nabney of the
Neural Computing Research Group at Aston, Prof. Xiaohui Liu’s
Intelligent Data Analysis group at Brunel and Dr. Ernst Wit's
Bioinformatics group in the Statistics Department at Glasgow.
Applications are invited from a broad range of post-doctoral researchers
in the physical and mathematical sciences. Through close collaborations
within the consortium and with the BBSRC life science community this
position provides an ideal opportunity for interdisciplinary research
and training. Good written and spoken English, research experience and
an eagerness to communicate with other scientists are essential. You
should expect to start work in the Autumn of 2003.
For more details, please contact Dr. Mark Muldoon ([log in to unmask])
Department of Mathematics, UMIST
P.O. Box 88
Manchester M60 1QD
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