The Unit of Animal Genomics (Prof Michel Georges) seeks to hire highly motivated and enthusiastic PhD student and a postdoc to join the IBD (inflammatory
Bowel Disease) team to work on a microbiome-related project. The candidates will participate in the setting up of highly innovative quantitative in situ microbiome profiling method using highly sophisticated imaging tools, and in the generation and analysis
of gut microbiome data of the CEDAR-II cohort, i.e. a unique cohort of ~500 individuals that are deeply phenotyped at the metabolome, genome, transcriptome and microbiome level in multiple immune cell types and intestinal locations with the aim to identify
variants, genes and pathways underlying inherited predisposition to Inflammatory Bowel Disease
(f.i. Huang et al. Nature 2017; Momozawa et al. Nat Commun 2018).