Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative and High-Throughput Genomics

We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to join a multidisciplinary team of biologists, plant genomicists, and bioinformaticians on a newly funded Genome Canada project at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). The project aims at identifying functional non-coding regions of agronomic importance in brassicacea plants using an array of comparative genomics, population genomics, and experimental techniques. The candidate will be in charge of the bioinformatics aspects of the comparative genomics portion of the project. He/she will work in collaboration with graduate students and a bioinformatics programmer to analyze high-throughput sequencing data (Roche 454-FLX and Illumina) and seek various types of functional non-coding functional regions. The fellow will develop new comparative genomics approaches making use of high-throughput sequencing data. He/she will work in close collaboration with researchers from the population genomics and experimentalists to identify regions that are the most likely to be of agronomic importance.

The successful candidate will hold a Ph.D. in bioinformatics or closely related area and will have experience in comparative and/or regulatory genomics. Ability to manage and analyze large biological data sets coming from next generation sequencing is a must, as is working knowledge of algorithms and statistics. Experience in plant genomics will be a great asset.

Starting date: As soon as possible.

Please send your CV to:
Prof. Mathieu Blanchette
School of Computer Science,
blanchem@mcb.mcgill.ca