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Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology
Umeå University is one of Sweden’s largest higher education institutions with over 37,000 students and about 4,700 employees. The University offers a diversity of high-quality education and world-leading research in several fields. Notably, the groundbreaking discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool, which was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was made here. At Umeå University, everything is close. Our cohesive campuses make it easy to meet, work together and exchange knowledge, which promotes a dynamic and open culture.
The ongoing societal transformation and large green investments in northern Sweden create enormous opportunities and complex challenges. For Umeå University, conducting research about – and in the middle of – a society in transition is key. We also take pride in delivering education to enable regions to expand quickly and sustainably. In fact, the future is made here.
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We are looking for a research engineer that will work on large scale bioinformatics analysis of sequencing data from historical air filters, with the purpose to identify pathogens. The position is on 100% and is limited to 10 months. Start date is 1st of May 2019 or according to agreement. Deadline for applications is 5th of April 2019.
Work tasks
You will work with the analysis of large scale sequencing data. The data comes from air filters that has been collected every week during 40 years in Kiruna. These air filters captures DNA from in principal all organisms in the environment, from plants, fungi and animals to bacteria and viruses. Your task will be to identify a number of defined pathogens in the data and follow their abundance during the past 40 years. This analysis will include pre-processing of sequencing data, classification using k-mer based tools (such as Centrifuge and Kraken) as well as verification through mapping of sequence reads to reference genomes.
This project is carried out in close collaboration with the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) in Umeå, and parts of the work might be located at FOI.
Required competence
We are looking for a person with a master degree in biology, statistics, programming or similar. You need to have experience in programming and sequence analysis.
Programming experience in Python and experience in working on Linux based computer clusters is a merit. Experience in the analysis of large scale Illumina based datasets and experience in shotgun based metagenomics is also a merit.
Application
You apply though our recruitment system. Log in and search at the bottom of the page. The application should include a personal letter, CV, certified copies of grades and certificates as well as names and contact information for at least two references.
Contact
For more information on the position, please contact Per Stenberg, per.stenberg@umu.se
The Department of Ecology and Environment Sciences, Umeå University, performs research and research education in ecology, environmental science and physical geography. The department has about 150 employees. For more information, visit www.emg.umu.se.
| Type of employment | Temporary position |
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| Contract type | Full time |
| First day of employment | 2019-05-01 or according to agreement |
| Salary | Monthly salary |
| Number of positions | 1 |
| Full-time equivalent | 100% |
| City | Umeå |
| County | Västerbottens län |
| Country | Sweden |
| Reference number | AN 2.2.1-462-19 |
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| Published | 15.Mar.2019 |
| Last application date | 05.Apr.2019 11:59 PM CEST |