Organisation/Company: LAGE - CEA / Genoscope
Research Field: Biological sciences
Researcher Profile: Recognised Researcher (R2)
Country: France
Application Deadline: 30 Nov 2024 - 23:00 (UTC)
Type of Contract: To be defined
Job Status: Full-time
Hours Per Week: To be defined
Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme
Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
Offer Description
Marine plankton encompass highly diverse species assemblages across various environmental conditions and are pivotal to key ecosystem services, ranging from the biological carbon pump to the marine food web and their impact on major biogeochemical cycles.
Throughout more than 15 years of expeditions, the Tara Ocean Consortium has gathered a unique collection of samples covering a wide diversity of marine environments to describe the composition and biological activities of marine plankton communities. This work has already contributed to significant breakthroughs in understanding this set of living organisms (cf. Tara Ocean Foundation et al. 2023. Nature Microbiology for a recent review and perspective).
What are the biological functions that shape the building of plankton communities? What are the metabolic interactions within a given community? What is the metabolic impact of viral infection? Can we decipher the impact of environmental parameters (e.g., nutrient availability) on biological functions, and vice versa? These are some of the research questions addressed in our group.
In this context, we propose a 2-year post-doc position at CEA/Genoscope, near Paris (France), to model metabolic interactions within marine plankton communities (from viruses to unicellular eukaryotes) sampled in the context of the Tara Oceans campaigns, and their intertwining with the environment.
This project will take advantage of a new top-down metabolic modelling system for unicellular phototrophic eukaryotes (PhotoEukStein, Burel et al. 2023. BiorXiv) combined with existing methods and resources for prokaryotes and metabolic niche modelling techniques (Régimbeau et al. 2022. Ecology Letters; Régimbeau et al. 2023. BiorXiv).
Research will take place within the OCean SYstems biology and GENomics (OCSYGEN) group of the Metabolic Genomics research unit at Genoscope (CEA – CNRS – Université Paris Saclay) in Evry, France.
Salary ranges from 31 to 33k€ net per year, including health coverage.
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