The Department of Zoology invites applications for a 3-year postdoc position within the division of Population Genetics, based at the Centre for Palaeogenetics (CPG) in Stockholm. The position is funded through the ERC Advanced Grant PrimiGenomes awarded to Love Dalén. The postdoctoral project advertised here is aimed at developing novel computational tools to bioinformatically recover and analyze highly degraded DNA sequences from specimens that are up to 2.5 million years old. The goals include development of improved methods for accurate alignment and authentication of extremely short DNA fragments, exploring variation graph alignment and variant calling approaches for several different Pleistocene taxa, and benchmarking the performance of the developed tools using comparisons of simulated and empirical data.
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