Bioinformatician (m/f/d)

For over 200 years the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung represents one of the most relevant institutions investigating nature and its diversity. Currently, scientists from more than 40 countries conduct research in the fields of biodiversity, earth system analysis and climate change in seven Senckenberg Institutes across Germany.

Following its mission to analyze and document biodiversity in earth system dynamics – to serve science and society, Senckenberg fosters curiosity-driven and application-oriented research. In Senckenberg at Frankfurt we seek to fill the position of a

Bioinformatician (m/f/d)

(full time)

This position is funded by a five-year project designed to combine cutting edge technology for studying both the anatomical and genomic basis for evolutionary novelties in molluscs, and test whether genomic novelties are more strongly associated with armour and shell morphology or rather physiological adaptations that allow the invasion of new niche spaces.

Your job would be to provide bioinformatics capacity especially in de novo genome assemblies of mollusc species.

This position is funded by a five-year project designed to combine cutting edge technology for studying both the anatomical and genomic basis for evolutionary novelties in molluscs, and test whether genomic novelties are more strongly associated with armour and shell morphology or rather physiological adaptations that allow the invasion of new niche spaces.

Your job would be to provide bioinformatics capacity especially in de novo genome assemblies of mollusc species.

Your tasks:

• Develop, maintain and automate computational pipelines for genome assembly and annotation of mollusc species that are sequenced via the LOEWE TBG and external partners using state-of-the-art sequencing technologies and compute infrastructure
• Support other members of the research group working on morphological features to identify specific research questions
• Perform independent research in collaboration with other members of the research group, the LOEWE-TBG, Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance, and external collaborators on molluscan genomics
• Perform comparative analyses of resulting genomes including for phylogenomics