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Applications are invited for a post-doctoral research associate to join the group of Dr Andreas Bender at the University of Cambridge (http://www.andreasbender.de/) in March 2014, or as soon as possible thereafter, for a duration of 3 years. The project will utilize both bioinformatics (RNA-Seq) as well as cheminformatics (in silico target prediction) approaches to perform "mode-of-action" and additional analyses of herbal extracts. The project is funded by and will be performed in collaboration with an industrial partner, Aboca Spa Società Agricola (http://www.aboca.com/en), who will also perform experimental studies suggested or further substantiated by the hypotheses generated computationally.

The research associate will be based at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics (http://www-ucc.ch.cam.ac.uk/) in the Department of Chemistry, which is home to about 40 scientists in the cheminformatics and bioinformatics field. The project will be well-embedded into the current expertise available at the centre, and regular travel to the sponsor (in Tuscany, Italy) for the purpose of knowledge transfer will be required.

Applicants should have (or be about to obtain) a relevant PhD in the fields of bioinformatics, cheminformatics, scientific data analysis or related fields. Expertise in the areas of scientific programming, databases, and data mining packages (such as R) is essential for the post, as is a scientific understanding of chemical and biological information. Previous experience in the analysis of RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, Molecular Docking data and the usage of workflow tools (such as Bioconductor, GenePattern, Taverna, KNIME, GALAXY, etc.) would be highly advantageous, as would be knowledge about natural products and mode-of-action elucidation.

To apply online for this vacancy, please click on the 'Apply' button on the application website, http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/2885/. This will route you to the University's Web Recruitment System, where you will need to register an account (if you have not already) and log in before completing the online application form.

Please ensure that you upload your Curriculum Vitae (CV), a covering letter and publications list in the Upload section of the online application. If you upload any additional documents that have not been requested, we will not be able to consider these as part of your application.

For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Andreas Bender (email: ab454@cam.ac.uk).

For queries relating to your application or the application process, please contact Susan Begg (email: smb28@cam.ac.uk).

Please quote reference MA02462 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

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