Two three-year postdoc positions are available within the HiPerBreedSim project at Edinburgh's Roslin Institute. With HiPerBreedSim, we are going to deliver new tools and resources to the breeding community and boost research in evolutionary genomics. The project is funded though a BBSRC BBR grant to Prof Gregor Gorjanc, Daniel Tolhurst, and Hannes Becher.

Postdoc 1 will work on genomic simulations and simulation software development working under Hannes Becher. They will extend our selective breeding simulator AlphaSimR and improve interoperability with the tree sequence (ancestral recombination graph) ecosystem. They will also add additional functionality for polyploids to the coalescent simulator msprime. Programming skills in R and Python are required as well as a background in genetics. More information and application link here: https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/jobs/preview/12513

Postdoc 2 is for a biometrician / applied statistician working under Daniel Tolhurst in collaboration with Emi Tanaka from Australian National University. They will develop novel extensions of AlphaSimR and FieldSimR to introduce complex phenotypes and experimental data arising from multiple data streams, e.g. high-throughput and hyper-spectral longitudinal data. The post holder will help push the forefront of state-of-the-art data generation in breeding programmes to match the rising amount of data generated in the field. More information and application link here: https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/12535 

Both positions come with ample opportunities for publication and other dissemination. 

Daniel Tolhurst, Hannes Becher, Gregor Gorjanc

For informal requests, contact dtolhurs@ed.ac.uk, h.becher@ed.ac.uk, and gregor.gorjanc@roslin.ed.ac.uk