PHD FELLOWSHIP IN MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS
Description: A PhD fellowship is available in Nick Goldman's research group
(http://www.ebi.ac.uk/goldman) at the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute.
The fellowship is within the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's
International PhD Programme
(http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/Studentships/phd.html;
http://www.embl.org/training/phdprogramme/index.html) and the successful
applicant will be registered at the University of Cambridge.
PhD projects can be in any area of the Group's interests, which concentrate on
methods of data analysis that use evolutionary information in sequence data and
phylogenies to infer the history of living organisms, to describe and
understand processes of evolution, and to use this information to make
predictions about the function of genomic sequence. We are particularly
interested in exploiting next-generation sequencing data and have also worked
on applied evolutionary studies and algorithms in sequence analysis and
conservation biology. We also hope to initiate a project on large-scale
phylogenies (the "Million Protein, Thousand Species Tree of Life").
PhD candidates will typically have degree-level backgrounds in one or more of
mathematics, statistics, computer science, molecular biology or similar areas.
Lack of experience in some of these areas is not considered a problem, so long
as candidates demonstrate aptitude and enthusiasm to learn.
Further details on application procedures etc. are available at
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/Studentships/phd/howtoapply.html. Please note
that candidates must register with the online application system by 30 June
2011 and must complete their applications by 11 July 2011. The PhD fellowship
may start in October 2011, or as soon afterwards as the successful candidate is
available.
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Nick Goldman tel: +44-(0)1223-492530
EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute fax: +44-(0)1223-494468
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
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