Postdoctoral position: Bacterial genomics and computational biology

A post-doctoral fellowship is available in the University of Edinburgh with Professor J. Ross Fitzgerald and colleagues. The 3 year-funded project involves a grouping of microbiologists, bioinformaticians and veterinary and human medical clinicians in the Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh. We have demonstrated the capacity for Nanopore-based whole genome sequencing of clinical samples without the need for culture, to allow rapid diagnosis of bacterial infections and prediction of antibiotic sensitivity. The successful candidate will further develop the sequence-based technique which will be formally tested on veterinary patients with infections in a clinical setting.

*Note from Twitter: this position will involve working alongside a group doing phage therapy research