A post-doc position in statistical genetics is available at the Roslin Institute to determine host genetic influences underlying infectious disease outbreaks in livestock populations.
You will contribute to two international collaborative projects aiming to determine the genetic basis of infectious disease outbreaks in aquaculture. In particular, we will analyse epidemiological data from diverse fish disease challenge experiments generated within these projects with the aim to quantify genetic susceptibility, infectivity and tolerance of fish to diseases of major importance to the aquaculture industry.
The knowledge will be utilized to design new genetic disease control strategies. For this purpose we will implement and further develop a variety of state-of-the art inference methods in statistical genetics applied to time to infection or death as well as to cross-sectional and longitudinal binary disease data, including MCMC methods for quantitative genetics models of infection dynamics recently developed by our team.
The work will be carried out in close collaboration with quantitative geneticists and aquaculture specialists in the UK, Spain and Norway.
The post-doc will also contribute to the development and application of mathematical simulation models and experimental designs to assess how host genetics affects disease spread and impact in genetically diverse livestock populations.
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Ref: 032488. Closing date: 27 February 2015.
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