Position available as programmer/bioinformatician
You will participate in a research collaboration between the University of Gothenburg and Gothenburg Botanical Garden in Sweden and the University of Arizona in the USA, with funding from the Swedish Research Council. Your role will be to further develop and adapt the PhyLoTa browser (http://www.phylota.net/) for producing large-scale, time-calibrated phylogenetic trees, which will be used in ongoing research on Neotropical biogeography. You will participate in setting up a pipeline to download, handle, and merge data from online databases containing DNA sequences, geo-references, fossils, bioclimatic variables, etc. For more information please visit http://antonelli-lab.net (under ’News’)