Job Company: Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is seeking candidates for a bioinformatics software engineer who will develop a framework to analyze sequencing data for antibodies. The successful candidate will work at the Structural Biology Brussels (SBB) research group at the VUB, which is part of the leading VIB Flanders Institute for Biotechnology. [More]
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is seeking candidates for a Ph.D. position in structural bioinformatics at the (IB)2 Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels. The (IB)2 is an interfaculty and interuniversity institute that brings together bioinformatics expertise at the VUB and Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), the two main universities in Europe’s capital. [More]
We are looking for two motivated PhD candidates to perform PhD’s related to 2 ESA (European Space Agency) research projects on the growth of yeast and bone cells in microgravity.
Position 1: Systems biology view on the effect of microgravity on the physiology of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Position 2: Computerised image analysis for quantitative fluorescence microscopy on yeast and bone cells. [More]The Vrije Universiteit Brussel has been a leading player in the Flemish Higher Education landscape for 40 years. The University numbers 12.000 students and together with its hospital - UZ Brussel – employs more than 6.000 people. The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is the largest Dutch speaking employer in the capital. Teaching...more... [More]
The Brussels Universities (Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)), are seeking candidates for a postdoctoral positions in data science and gene variant ranking. The successful candidates will participate in the (IB)2 Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels, an institute that brings together the science, engineering and...more... [More]
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), in collaboration with the Universiteit Gent (UG), is seeking candidates for a postdoctoral position in structural bioinformatics. The research project will investigate how sequence-based predictions of protein characteristics can be fully exploited on a large statistical scale to better understand their experimentally observed behavior, especially in relation to folding events, protein stability and post-translational modifications. It connects structural bioinformatics (Wim Vranken at the Structural Biology Brussels (SBB), VUB), machine learning (Tom Lenaerts at the Artificial Intelligence group (AI), VUB) and proteomics (Lennart Martens at the Computational Omics and Systems Biology Group, UG). The successful candidate will be mainly located at the (IB)2 Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels (http://ibsquare.be), an institute that brings together the science, engineering and medical faculties of VUB and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in a collaborative and open atmosphere. The focus of the (IB)2 is on interdisciplinary research, with expertise in machine learning, big data, rare diseases, oligenic disorders, network analysis, genome analysis, metagenomics and structural bioinformatics. Research context: The interactions and function of proteins are determined by their dynamics and conformations. Proteins can adopt context-dependent and interchanging conformations, as illustrated by allosteric changes induced by binding events or by post-translational modifications. Local sequence-based interactions between amino acids have a large influence on these preferential conformations, even when long-range stabilizing interactions are present. In this project, we investigate the influence of such local interactions on the behavior of proteins, from folded to intrinsically disordered. These analyses are possible through novel and unique tools and databases developed by our groups, such as DynaMine (http://dynamine.ibsquare.be), Start2Fold (http://start2fold.eu) and PepShell (http://compomics.github.io/projects/pepshell.html). The successful candidate will gather further relevant experimental data from public databases and literature and connect these data to results from sequence- and structure-based predictions in order to construct innovative computational approaches that can guide new experimental work in protein folding, stability and post-translational modifications. Offer: A full time postdoctoral position for the duration of 3 years funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), pending a review after the first 6 months. [More]