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Metagenomes are complex datasets that contain genomic information from bacteria, viruses, and other microbial organisms. Laboratories around the world are generating tens of thousands of these datasets with high-throughput DNA sequencing machines, providing an unprecedented picture of the microbial world we live in. We are just beginning to understand the many interactions taking place in this global microbiome. In the role of Bioinformatician/Data Steward Metagenomics, you will strengthen the metagenomics research at Utrecht University by developing and maintaining pipelines for downloading and analysing genomic and metagenomic datasets from public repositories. You will play an important role in our team and contribute to answering diverse research questions related to the microbiome, such as predicting bacteriophage-host interactions, identifying growth-stimulating bacteria for agriculture, and understanding the role of bacteria in diseases such as colorectal cancer. For an example of our scientific work based on metagenomic data analysis, see Dutilh et al. (2014), "A highly abundant bacteriophage discovered in the unknown sequences of human faecal metagenomes", Nature Communications 5: 4498 (DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5498).
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In addition to the employment conditions laid down in the CAO for Dutch Universities, Utrecht University has a number of its own arrangements. For example, there are agreements on professional development, leave arrangements and sports. We also give you the opportunity to expand your terms of employment yourself via the Employment Conditions Selection Model. This is how we like to encourage you to continue to grow. More information about working at the Faculty of Science can be found here.
You will join the Utrecht University Metagenomics Group (MGX), an inter-disciplinary and international team using bioinformatic data analysis and computational modelling to investigate the fundamental principles that shape microbiomes. MGX is located in the Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics group which focuses on using computational methods to address biological questions. MGX is one of the core research groups in the Utrecht Bioinformatics Centre (UBC), a campus-wide network of actively collaborating bioinformaticians dealing with different aspects of data analysis in the Life Sciences. UBC maintains a high-performance compute cluster consisting of >1.5k cores and 600TB of storage that we use in our research.
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