Warwick Systems Biology Centre.
£27,428 - £35,788 pa
Fixed Term Contract for 36 months
In this BBSRC funded post you will work on an exciting mathematical modelling/statistical analysis project in a world leading interdisciplinary research team studying the spatial-temporal orchestration of chromosome alignment during cell division. Cell division is a highly orchestrated spatial process that surprisingly involves oscillations during chromosome alignment. Neither the function or the mechanism of these oscillations are known.
The main focus of the project will be to fit models of these oscillations to the imaging data (spot tracking data) and discriminate between the models using Bayesian model selection techniques. Thus the project comprises the development of models based on the known molecular biology, eg sDE models, and then utilising Bayesian computational statistics techniques (such as Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, MCMC) to fit these models.
You will have a PhD in a relevant subject such as statistics, mathematics or physics and ideally be skilled in spatial biological/physical modelling or statistical computation. An ability to programme in a high level language is highly desirable, e.g. MatLab, C++. You should be a highly motivated individual, eager to succeed in academia. Experience of writing scientific papers/reports and good communication skills with other disciplines are desirable. Previous experience with biological data is desirable but not necessary. You will be working within a collaborative team of experimentalists and theorists so having an interest in the biological questions is expected.
For more information, and application procedure see the advert:
https://secure.admin.warwick.ac.uk/webjobs/jobs/research/job22481.html
or the project website http://go.warwick.ac.uk/systemsbiology/staff/burroughs/celldivision
Yours sincerely
Professor Nigel Burroughs
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