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.