Candidates have to be enthusiastic, and need to have a competitive CV to successfully apply for the fellowship. Experience in Molecular Genetics, Transgenesis and Developmental Biology, and (or) Background in Bioinformatics, and Comparative Genomics will be positively considered.
Our main research interest is to understand the impact of gene losses on the evolutionary diversification of mechanisms of development in chordates. Our work focuses on comparative approaches between vertebrates (zebrafish), urochordates and cephalochordates. Our main subject of study is Oikopleura dioica, a new emergent urochordate model within our own phylum, with the smallest genome size known so far in all metazoans, and with an outstanding amount of gene losses (Denoeud et al., Science, 2010).
Interested candidates, please send a brief letter of interest and a CV in ONE single pdf file to Cristian Cañestro (canestro@ub.edu)
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For an outline of our group’s research: