Postdoc position in Computational Biology/ Genomics/Transcriptomics/Bioinformatics in Zürich

ETH Zurich is one of the world’s leading universities specialising in science and technology. It is renowned for its excellent education, its cutting-edge fundamental research and its efforts to put new knowledge and innovations directly into practice. At the Institute of Agricultural Science, the Animal Genomics and Animal Physiology Groups address sequence variation in livestock populations and the complex regulation of physiology. Reproductive challenges are specifically in focus and include an epigenetic perspective on cellular communication in livestock and wildlife.

The Postdoctoral researcher will implement bioinformatic methods to combine short and long sequencing reads for the de-novo assembly of large animal genomes. Sequencing technologies that generate long-read sequence data from single molecules at sufficient throughput facilitate the de-novo assembly of large genomes at unprecedented contiguity. High-quality genome assemblies are available for many mammalian species but such a resource is missing for the European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus). We envisage to combine long- and short-read sequencing data to generate a first de-novo assembly of the European roe deer and to perform RNA-Seq and Methyl-Seq analyses.