[Post-doc/IR]Bioinformatician : organization of plant chromosomes

Bioinformatician position in the Chromatin and development team at KAUST

The Chromatin and development Group headed by Dr. Moussa BENHAMED is seeking a Bioinformatician to start as soon as possible. Using experimental and computational approaches, the group has a broad interest in genome organization and its influence on gene regulation. We use molecular methods (Hi-C, ChIAPET, ChIP-seq, DNA-methylation analysis and RNA-seq) and computational analysis to investigate the organization of plant chromosomes. Recent work has shown that a set of chromatin proteins are functionally important for the looping of regulatory elements at individual genes (Jégu et al., Plant Cell 2014) as well as global chromosome structure. The full-time bioinformatics position is immediately available. The appointee will be supervised by Dr. Moussa BENHAMED. The position is funded for at least 2 years. The ideal candidate should have a genomics or computer science based PhD, be highly ambitious and self-motivated and possess significant experience in applied bioinformatics, specifically having worked with next-generation sequencing datasets. The candidate will also be expected to have a working knowledge of R and statistics. The post holder will be expected to analyze, integrate and interpret multiple datasets simultaneously (including ChIP-Seq, RNA-Seq and data arising from genome wide 3C-based studies, HiC and ChIAPET). The work will also involve management of the data, application of cutting-edge algorithms, and development of appropriate post-analysis strategies and pipelines

Application Procedure:

Interested applicants should e-mail Dr. Moussa Benhamed (moussa.benhamed@u-psud.fr) with a complete professional CV (including educational background, experience, a list of Publications.

Salary and benefits:

Remuneration will be highly competitive and commensurate with the applicant's qualifications and experience. A typical annual stipend ranges from $50,000 U.S. dollars (for fresh Ph.D.) to $90,000 U.S. dollars (for Ph.D. with rich research experience), with zero tax paid to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Successful applicants will also receive attractive compensation and benefit packages provided by KAUST, including:

(1)   Fully-furnished housing free to the postdoctoral fellow (up to a 2 bed-roomed town house) or at a subsidized price (for larger housing),

(2)   Free education at KAUST schools for the postdoctoral fellow’s children (if there are any),

(3)   Subsidized medical and dental insurance,

(4)   One month per year of paid vacation leave.

KAUST will be responsible for actual recruiting decision, appointment offers and employment benefits.

About KAUST:

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is an international, graduate-level research university supported by a multi-billion dollar endowment. With sufficient research funding, highly competitive and merit-based compensation scheme, state-of-art core facilities, supercomputing machines (for KAUST’s Shaheen Supercomputer see https://www.hpc.kaust.edu.sa/) and university leadership’s vision and commitment to make KAUST one of the world's greatest academic institutions, KAUST has attracted a large group of leading scholars. Furthermore, through a Global Research Partnership, KAUST has built up deep and meaningful partnerships with the world's most premier institutions (e.g., Stanford University, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), The University of Oxford, UC Berkeley, Cornell University, University of Texas at Austin) and biggest companies (e.g., IBM, Boeing, Dow Chemical Company), which provide KAUST researchers ample opportunities to work with the world's most leading scientists and to commercialize their research projects. The aforementioned unrivaled resources available to KAUST researchers offer unprecedented opportunities for young scientists to build up their career at KAUST. As to life at KAUST, one can refer to: https://logistics.kaust.edu.sa