Employment Opportunuties

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

  Alexis 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 University; email: michael.donoghue@yale.edu

• Tree Reconciliation

  Todd Vision, UNC; email: tjv@bio.unc.edu

• Trait Evolution

  Brian O'Meara, U Tennessee; email: bomeara@utk.edu

• Tree Visualization

  Michael Sanderson, U Arizona; 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.

Note: Applications are to be made to individual host institiutions, not the
iPlant Collaborative. Please direct inqueries to any of the Grand Challenge Team members listed above.

Positions are available immediately.

The institutions involved in this program may be Affirmative Action and/or Equal Opportunity Employers.