加州大学圣巴巴拉分校博士后职位招聘–生物学、生物信息学、地球生物学、计算生物学或相关领域

Phylogenetic trees are powerful tools that help us build hypotheses of the sequence of diversification events and the evolutionary relationships among organisms. They are of particular interest when studying early life on Earth because we can infer what the most ancient bacterial and/or archaeal clades are, when these clades first diversified, the environmental conditions that prevailed at the time of their diversification, or how the Last Common Ancestor potentially looked like.

The ELME Lab in the Earth Science Department at UC Santa Barbara is looking for a postdoctoral researcherthat is excited about the origin and evolution of microbes. Candidates are expected to have a PhD (or close to finish a PhD) in Biology, Bioinformatics, Geobiology, Computational Biology, or related fields. Experience with bioinformatics and/or phylogenomics is a plus.

Specific projects will be related but not limited to:

1. Assessing the phylogenetic placement of early-branching clades of Bacteria and Archaea.
2. Development of pipelines for the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees.
3. Exploring and reconstructing the environmental context that allowed the diversification of life on Earth.
4. Happy to hear your research ideas and interests!

First review of applications will be early February, 2024. Starting salary is 65K/year and starting date can be as early as September, 2024.

Feel free to email me at cmartinezg[at]ucsb.edu with your CV (make sure you include three references!) and a cover letter with a brief description of your research experience and interests. Be sure to mention how your research interests align with the lab goals.