Job announcement
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University of Konstanz , Department Evolutionary Biology and Zoology

application deadline: 1.5.2010
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At the University of Konstanz we have an opening for a postdoc position available immediately in the lab of Axel Meyer at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Zoology at the University of Konstanz in Germany.

Through the funding of the University of Konstanz by the "excellence initiative" of the German government and the German Science Foundation we are in the process of establishing a genomics/proteomics center. It currently includes already both Roche 454 FLX and Illumina GAIIx next generation sequencing platforms. Hence, we are particularly interested in a postdoc with expertise in molecular evolution, genomics and bioinformatics. This area of research at the University of Konstanz will be strengthened further by a "junior professorship" in bioinformatics that will soon be filled.

These positions are also affiliated with the new graduate school in chemical biology (for more information visit http://www.chembiol.uni-konstanz.de/) and the new International Max-Planck Research School in Organismal Biology (http://cms.uni-konstanz.de/organismal-biology/).

The postdoc projects we are interested in have to do with fish genomics and in particular comparative transcriptomics and genomics of cichlid fish. Other projects deal with the evolution of gene families and the evolution of the genome in early chordates and vertebrates.

Candidates should have a strong interest in bioinformatics, developmental and evolutionary biology and should be experienced in molecular techniques and/or computational biology.

Appointments are for two years initially with a salary according to German TV-L salary scale that includes extensive health and retirement benefits. The initial contract period would be for two years with the potential for additional years of funding. Informal inquiries should be addressed to Prof. Axel Meyer, Ph.D. (axel.meyer@uni-konstanz.de).

Further information on our research can be obtained from our web page: http://www.evolutionsbiologie.uni-konstanz.de/index.php?section. For publications see http://www.evolutionsbiologie.uni-konstanz.de/index.php?section'.

Applications should include a CV, statement of research interests and email addresses of two references. Review of applications will commence on May 1st 2010. Starting dates are flexible. Applications should be sent as one pdf file to axel.meyer@uni-konstanz.de.

This search will remain open until the positions are filled -- Prof. Axel Meyer, Ph.D. Lehrstuhl für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie Department of Biology Building M, Room M806 University of Konstanz 78457 Konstanz Germany fon + 49 7531 88 4163 fax + 49 7531 88 3018 secretary: Ingrid.Bader@uni-konstanz.de tel. + 49 7531 88 3069