Jobs and Positions

Postdoctoral Research Positions—Computational Phylogenetics/Phyloinformatics

Multiple postdoctoral positions are available for research and cyberinfrastructure development associated with reconstructing the
green plant tree of life. Positions are sponsored by the iPlant Collaborative (http://iplantcollaborative.org), which is supporting cyberinfrastructure across the plant sciences. Individuals would work with one of a number of identified investigators focusing on specific issues in phylogenetic cyberinfrastructure development. These include high performance computing and scalable tree construction (Alexandros Stamatakis—Technical University, Munich; email: stamatak@cs.tum.edu), data set assembly (Doug Soltis—U Florida; email: dsoltis@botany.ufl.edu, Pam Soltis—U Florida; email: psoltis@flmnh.ufl.edu; Michael Donoghue—Yale; email: michael.donoghue@yale.edu), gene tree reconciliation (Todd Vision—UNC; email: tjv@bio.unc.edu), character evolution (Brian O’Meara—U Tennessee; email: bomeara@utk.edu), and tree visualization (Michael Sanderson, UC-Davis; email: sanderm@email.arizona.edu). Fellows can anticipate working in a highly collaborative, multi-institutional context, with some travel between working groups encouraged. In addition to undertaking basic research in phylogenetic methods, postdocs will be expected to provide advice on and work in collaboration with cyberinfastructure developers in the iPlant team. Qualifications include familiarity with the data, methods, and software of phylogenetic analysis, and programming experience at least at the level of a scripting language such as PERL. Individual PIs may have additional requirements. Inquiries should be directed to any of the Grand Challenge Team members listed above. Positions are available immediately. A full description of the iPToL (iPlant Tree of Life) project can be found online at http://iptol.iplantcollaborative.org. The institutions involved in this program may be Affirmative Action and/or Equal Opportunity Employers.

Postdoctoral Research Positions—Connecting Genotypes to Phenotypes in Complex Environments

Multiple postdoctoral positions will be available for research and cyberinfrastructure development associated with elucidating the relationship between plant genotypes and the resultant phenotypes (G2P) in changing environments. The program is sponsored by the iPlant Collaborative (http://iplantcollaborative.org), which develops and enables cyberinfrastructure support for Grand Challenge research across the plant sciences. Individuals will be work in a team setting with one of a number of specific investigators having key roles in issues related to G2P cyberinfrastructure development. These include pipelining and analysis of Next Generation sequence data (Tom Brutnell—Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University; email: tpb8@cornell.edu), data integration (Matthew Vaughn email: vaughn@cshl.edu, and Doreen Ware email: ware@cshl.edu, — both at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), statistical inference for genome-wide association mapping (Dan Kliebenstein— University of California, Davis; email: kliebenstein@ucdavis.edu), visualization/analysis (Ruth Grene—Virginia Tech; email: grene@vt.edu), modeling tools (Stephen Welch—Kansas State University; email: welchsm@ksu.edu). The work setting will be a highly collaborative, multi-institutional context, with some travel between working groups encouraged. In addition to undertaking basic G2P research, individuals will be expected to provide advice on and work in collaboration with iPlant cyberinfastructure developers. Qualifications include familiarity with one (or preferably more) of the following areas: functional-, quantitative-, or computational genetics/genomics; bioinformatics; programming experience (either scripting languages like PERL or compiled languages like C/C++); modeling (systems biological, ecophysiological, or statistical); database use; current topics in plant biology (especially stress, photosynthesis, or phenology); or high performance computing. Individual investigators may have additional requirements. Inquiries should be directed to any of the individuals listed above. A full description of the iPlant G2P program, including specific position descriptions as they become available, can be found online at http://ipg2p.iplantcollaborative.org. The institutions involved in this program may be Affirmative Action and/or Equal Opportunity Employers.