PhD Position in Comparative Genomics (m­­/­­f­­/­­d)

The Hiller Lab at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany has an opening for a PhD student to investigate the genomic basis of phenotypic differences in mammals. The mission of our lab is to understand how nature's fascinating phenotypic diversity has evolved and how it is encoded in the genome. Work in the lab includes sequencing and assembly of reference-quality genomes, genome alignment and gene annotation, development and application of comparative genomic methods to discover differences in genes and gene expression, and the use of statistical approaches to link phenotypic to genomic changes. Our lab is part of the Senckenberg Research Society (https://www.senckenberg.de/en/ (https://www.senckenberg.de/en/) ), and is based near the city center of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Senckenberg provides access to cutting-edge computational (large HPC clusters, genome browser) and lab infrastructure to sequence and analyze genomes. English is the working language in our lab. The Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (SGN) was founded in 1817 and is one of the most important research institutions in the field of biodiversity. At its twelve locations throughout Germany, scientists from more than 40 nations conduct cutting-edge research on an international scale. The Society's headquarter is in the Main metropolis of Frankfurt in the heart of Germany. This is also where one of the best-known Senckenberg facilities, the Senckenberg Natural History Museum, is located.