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The University Duisburg-Essen (Campus Essen) , offers a position at the Faculty of Biology, Research Group Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics as:
PhD-student
(65% part-time, salary equivalent TV-L 13)
Activities and responsibilities
The successful applicant will work in a collaborative project on B cell differentiation in the germinal center reaction and the resulting memory B cell compartment in humans.
The focus will be on computational analyses of HTSeq data, specifically:
- analysis of scRNAseq data and HTSeq data of B-cell receptor repertoires
- probabilistic modeling and Bayes inference
The applicant will participate in the BIOME graduate school.
Qualification profile
At least 8 semesters of successful studies with a Master in Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Computational Biology, Biology or similar.
- solid background in bioinformatics and statistics (probabilistic modeling, Bayes inference)
- familiarity with processing and analysis of HTSeq database
- very good programming skills, esp. with R
- knowledge of the biological background (B cells)
- good communication skills (incl. ability of writing and speaking scientific english) and team working abilities
We offer
- participation in cutting edge research project
- interesting job in an excellent team
- supplementary training opportunities
- sports and health offers (university sports)
Send application to
Applications (including a letter of motivation and a CV with contact information of two references) and inquiries with reference code jv-473-20 should be addressed by e-mail to: daniel.hoffmann@uni-due.de.