The Compunet Research Line at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa is opening a postdoctoral position (2 years) with focus on bioinformatics and machine learning: in particular deep learning for genomics for disease/pharmaceutical predictions. Knowledge of computational drug discovery will be considered a plus. Knowledge of Caffe, Theano, TensorFlow or related deep learning GPU enabled/ machine learning software libraries is also a desirable skill. The salary will be internationally competitive and commensurate with the candidate's experience. Applicants are invited to submit a cover letter stating research goals, a curriculum vitae and contact information of 2 referees to panagiota.dimopoulou@iit.it

The Laboratory of Computational Biology (Stein Aerts lab) is part of the VIB Center for Brain & Disease Research and the Department of Human Genetics (University of Leuven, Belgium). Our lab is a "humid" lab, half wet and half dry. In the wet-lab we apply high-throughput technologies to decipher enhancer logic and map gene regulatory networks, such as RNA-seq for transcriptomics and ATAC-seq and ChIP-seq for epigenomic profiling. To test the activities of promoters and enhancers we use massively parallel enhancer-reporter assays. Finally, to map high-resolution landscapes of possible cellular states we use single-cell transcriptomics and single-cell epigenomics.