Postdoc in Host-Microbiome Multi-omic Data Science

Employment type: FULLTIME. A position as a postdoc (100% time) is vacant at the Arumugam Group, Research unit of Medical Gastroenterology, the Department of Clinical Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark. The position is limited to 3 years with the possibility of extension.

Research tasks The position as a postdoc consists of research, teaching, professional development, and guidance in Host-Microbiome Multi-omic Data Science.

We seek a data scientist to derive insights from host-microbiome multi-omics data in multiple consortium projects studying human and animal health, including GALAXY/MicrobLiver studying liver fibrosis (https://www.sdu.dk/en/forskning/galaxy), MICROB-PREDICT studying late-stage liver cirrhosis (https://microb-predict.eu/), and PIG-PARADIGM to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in pig production (http://pig-paradigm.net).

We strive to integrate and interpret these data derived from microbiome (e.g., metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, viral metagenomics, metabolomics, metaproteomics) and host (e.g., genetics, proteomics, circulating metabolomics) in collaboration with international data science partners (e.g., EMBL-Heidelberg; University of California, Davis) and other project partners.

The current state-of-the-art for multi-omics integration and interpretation leaves much to be desired1 …