Position in Functional Genomics
(Tenure Track: Assistant Professor)
This hire would join the Functional Adaptations (FA) Core in the Department of Biological Sciences (DBS). We are searching for an experimental-based scientist using cutting-edge genomic tools including epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, or metabolomics to answer fundamental questions about the evolutionary role of genomic/epigenomic regulation in response to environmental selection pressures. Particular areas of interest are mechanisms of adaptations to abiotic/biotic stresses and changing climates, as well as the genetic networks and pathways involved in adapting to environmental change (e.g., signal transduction). Research of the successful applicant should focus on the physiology and development of organisms, but exploration may take place at the subcellular, cellular, organismal, or population level, such that it could be aligned with other core areas in DBS. The use of “omics” based tools inherent to this position requires that the applicant has strong computational knowledge and use of techniques involving experimentally generated NextGen data so they can collaboratively fit with other members of this Computational Biology cluster hire.
Functional Genomics: For more information please contact Dr. Aaron Rashotte (amr0008@auburn.edu)