Société Française de Bioinformatique

Mots-Clés

machine learning RNA biology neural network topology RNA-seq genomics

Description

The newly founded research group "Bioinformatics and Simulation" at the Department of Applied Sciences at Coburg University is offering a position for a PhD student (f/m/n) in a DFG-funded research project, which is already granted for the next three years.

The project:
The abstract https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/439797931?language=en outlines the main
objectives of the project. In a nutshell, we want to levarage machine learning, particularly artificial
neural networks (aNNs), to develop novel approaches for interpreting patterns in the RNA
complements of human individuals. For our analyses, we will employ high dimensional RNA-Seq
data, based on which we aim to establish novel aNN topologies that allow to model expert
knowledge to govern the process of machine learning. Beside method development, we will
investigate relevant human cohorts and we are expecting to find much interesting biology along our
way.

We are looking for:
- a curious, creative, proactive and team-minded candidate, who demonstrates largely
independent ways of working and enthusiasm for this topic of research;
- holding a Diploma or Master's degree in computer science, bioinformatics or a related
field;
- familiar with *NIX working environments (command line);
- with programming experiences, particularly desirable in Python, R and/or Java;
- fluent in spoken and written English.

We are offering:
- a salary based on German laws for employees in the public sector (TV-L E13, 65%),
including benefits (social and health insurance);
- competent and dedicated supervision in research and technical challenges;
- elaboration of the PhD project jointly with a renowned research group in the area at a
federal university;
- an adequate compute and storage infrastructure, as well as access to restricted data sets
of relevance for the topic of research;
- the possibility of participating in international conferences and workshops.