PhD position on Microbial Genome Evolution

How do archaeal genomes evolve? Contribute to answer this question by joining our team!

How do archaeal genomes evolve? Join this PhD project to explore genome architecture across Archaea using comparative genomics and evolutionary bioinformatics.

Your job

Archaea represent one of the most diverse and least understood domains of life, yet they occupy a pivotal position in the evolutionary history of cellular organization. Their genomes vary enormously in size, structure, gene organization, and evolutionary dynamics, raising fundamental questions about how genome architecture evolves across deep evolutionary time. As PhD candidate you will investigate the evolution of genome architecture across the full diversity of Archaea. You will use large-scale comparative and evolutionary genomics to uncover general principles governing genome evolution, including features that may have shaped the emergence of eukaryotic genome organization.

This fully funded Ph...