Job description
The PhD will be hired on the project “HotSpot: Stress-induced mutations in evolution” funded by the NFR and led by William Reinar. The HotSpot project investigates how environmental stress biases the genomic mutation landscape and how these biases may influence evolution.
The recruited PhD candidate will be involved in the work package Genome dynamics of stress-induced mutagenesis and will investigate how heat stress impacts Arabidopsis thaliana genome dynamics. The PhD candidate will generate omics (RNA-seq and PacBio CiFi) and phenotypic data from experimentally evolved Arabidopsis thaliana lines and perform integrative analyses of these data to advance our understanding of transient and heritable changes in a plant system under stress.
What skills are important in this role?
The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences has a strategic ambition to be among Europe’s leading communities for research, education and innovation. Candidates for these fellowships will be selected in accordance with this, and expected to be in the upper segment of their class with respect to academic credentials.
Required qualifications:
- Hands-on experience with molecular biology techniques, such as DNA/RNA extraction and PCR.
- Basic knowledge of handling sequence data from RNA-seq or other NGS-based approaches.
- Experience with data analysis in Python/R.
- Experience with experimental work on plants or other eukaryotic organisms in laboratory or field settings.
- Master’s degree or equivalent in biology, molecular biology, bioinformatics, ecology, evolution, or related fields
- Foreign completed degree (M.Sc.-level) corresponding to a minimum of four years in the Norwegian educational system
- Fluent oral and written communication skills in English
Desired qualifications:
- Experience with high-performance cluster environments.
- Experience with organism-level experiments such as common garden experiments or similar.
- Familiarity and interest in 3D-genomics.
Language requirement:
- Good oral and written communication skills in English
- English requirements for applicants from outside of EU/ EEA countries and exemptions from the requirements:
https://www.mn.uio.no/english/research/phd/regulations/regulations.html#toc8
Grade requirements:
The norm is as follows:
- The average grade point for courses included in the Bachelor’s degree must be C or better in the Norwegian educational system
- The average grade point for courses included in the Master’s degree must be B or better in the Norwegian educational system
- The Master’s thesis must have the grade B or better in the Norwegian educational system
The purpose of the fellowship is research training leading to the successful completion of a PhD degree. For more information see:
http://www.mn.uio.no/english/research/phd/
