job offer MMT24-EEAD-01-01 "High resolution agroclimatic variables for field trials and adaptation of cereal crops (CLIMACER)"

[see PD18092024 below]

Program: https://momentum.csic.es

Project: High resolution agroclimatic variables for field trials and adaptation
of cereal crops (CLIMACER)

Location: Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain (Estación Experimental de Aula Dei-CSIC)

Principal Investigators:

• Bruno Contreras Moreira (Computational and Structural Biology , GitHub, bcontreras at eead.csic.es , +34 976716089) 
• Santiago Beguería (Erosion and Soil and Water Evaluation , GitHub, sbegueria at eead.csic.es, +34 976716158)

PROJECT SUMMARY
Understanding how crops respond and adapt to climate change is critical to ensuring food security and agricultural sustainability. Despite the existence of climatic data repositories, it is still challenging to calculate agroclimatic variables appropriate to the phenology of each crop, such as days of vernalization of winter cereal crops. This hinders the development of effective adaptation strategies. CLIMACER project addresses these limitations with two objectives. The first consists on developing open source tools for customized calculation of high-resolution agroclimatic indices based on public data, which will be used in two case studies of genotype-environment association with barley and Sinapis alba populations sequenced in previous projects. The second is to compile a FAIR database that will aggregate cereal trial data from the GENVCE network along with agroclimatic indices for diverse trial locations. 

Distribution of 4 barley subpopulations in mainland Spain, from https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15009.

Tech and scientific fields: Climate change and biodiversity, platform of climate services, high-throughput data processing, data integration and analysis, computational biology 

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Minimum requirements:

• Fluency in Spanish and English.
•  Science university degree (computer science, biology, biochemistry, maths, physics, …).
• Programming ans scripting languages.

Other skills to be considered:

• R and/or Python programming skills.
•  Software development skills (API creation, source code repositories, etc).
•  Document digitalization skills (OCR).
•  Database management and/or data science skills.
•  Bioinformatics and/or geo-information science skills.

WHAT WE OFFER
A training program will be customized for the hired person, with two alternative paths: a) enrolling on a Master’s program; or, b) attending courses on scripting, bioinformatics, computer programming and data science. We also plan for the hired person to c) attend conferences on climatology, geoscience and genomics, d) organize a workshop in collaboration with CIHEAM Zaragoza to teach how to use the resulting API and d) to take part in research secondments for training in diverse national and international labs from 2025 to 2027.

Contract conditions
Indefinite contract for a University Graduate associated with the Momentum Project of 4 years' duration according to Spanish science law. Gross annual salary (37.000 € - 41.000 €).
Start of contract: before 31 December 2024
 

Application instructions and help

• https://momentum.csic.es
  
• Register and upload your qualifications at https://sede.csic.gob.es/tramites/bolsa-de-trabajo by September 20th 27th
• Titulado Superior FC1 / University Graduate FC1 (Out-of-Agreement Labour Exchange).
• Choose at least one of the following areas and topics/ámbitos:
  
• 8903 Recursos Naturales: Procesos de la geohidrosfera, Ejes transversales: Cambio Global, Biología de Organismos y Sistemas: Bioinformática
• 8905 Ciencia y Tecnologías Físicas: Sistemas Complejos, Informática, Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicaciones 
• Select our research center "Estación Experimental de Aula Dei (EEAD-CSIC)"
  
• Please pay attention to requirements of foreign degrees.
  
• The status of candidates at the bolsa is updated weekly or even less prequently in August.
  
• Questions to: momentum at csic.es or the PIs

 

We will update this post as more information becomes available. 

PD18092024: hemos comprobado que en la aplicación de la bolsa es posible seleccionar dos áreas, así que podéis apuntaros a otras áreas, por ejemplo "8905 Ciencia y Tecnologías Físicas", y ámbitos como Sistemas Complejos, Informática o Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicaciones

 

contrato FPI en la EEAD-CSIC para genómica y premejora de cebadas mediterráneas

 4-year PhD contract at EEAD-CSIC, Zaragoza within project GENOBAR

ACTUALIZACIÓN 27/10/2023

plazo: del 27oct al 10nov a las 23:59h (CET)

aplicación telemática: https://www.convocatorias.csic.es/convoca

Código de proyecto: PRE2023_EEAD_052

Preadmisión a un programas de doctorado, nuestros estudiantes suelen hacerlo en uno de estos dos:

1) http://dcamn.unizar.es/programa-de-doctorado-de-ciencias-agrarias-y-del-medio-natural-0 (Contacto: Gemma Sausán)

2) https://www.doctorat.udl.cat/en/programes/ciencia-y-tecnologia-agraria-i-alimentaria (Contacto: roxana.savin@udl.cat).

 

Recently funded project PID2022-142116OB-I00 “Genetics and pangenomics for Mediterranean barley adaptation to abiotic stress, pre-breeding and breeding” will continue our research on barley adaptation, delivering genomic resources and plant materials at different levels of the Mediterranean barley pre-breeding pipeline.

We offer a 4-year FPI PhD contract at EEAD-CSIC to help you develop your skill set in computational and plant biology and breeding. Your supervisors will be Bruno Contreras Moreira and Ana M Casas. The offer includes salary for the 4 years, university fees, funding for short research stays and national health insurance.

This contract is an excellent opportunity for students seeking to advance in the use of genomics approaches to study natural genetic diversity and gene function. The research involves experimentation with plants in the field and greenhouse, wet lab and bioinformatics. It will be carried out with barley, a species of high economic and social interest for our country, but the skills learned will be transferable to any species. Check out our GitHub and this blog for more info. Track record: 7 people completed PhDs with us in the last 10 years, 5 remain in academia and 2 work in the industry.

Candidates must have a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree related to Biology or Agronomy and ideally some experience in writing code and data analysis.

The work plan has three goals:

• Construction of a Mediterranean barley pangenome. This will require genomic data analysis in the Linux command-line, R and Python programming and data analysis. This will be done in collaboration with Agostino Fricano (CREA, Italy). 
• Discovery of gene expression signatures of Mediterranean barleys. This will require preparation of RNA samples and analysis of sequenced transcriptomic data.  
•  Evaluation of phenotypic and transcriptomic responses to drought in selected barley genotypes. This experiment will be done in a new in-house high-throughput phenotyping facility (see pic).

DEADLINES

- July-August 2023: pre-screening of candidates and remote interviews

- Application process will be open in September 2023

- Job is expected to start at the end of 2023 or early 2024 (more details after summer break)

CONTACT: Email bcontreras AT eead.csic.es / acasas AT eead.csic.es with a PDF document including a) cover letter, including any references; b) resumé; c) BS and MS transcripts including average grades.

 

    

 

  

Gene HvCEN (green) in the context of the barley pangenome.

 

 

breeding informatics job Dupont-Pioneer (Seville, Spain)

Buenas, 

os paso una oferta que me ha llegado por si a alguien le interesa, el contacto es  Eva Guzmán (eva dot guzman at pioneer dot com), hasta luego,

Bruno

Senior Research Associate position

Description

Provide computer and software support for researchers in crop product development programs world-wide. The senior research associate will be an integral part of the crop development team located in, and supported by, the researchers in Seville, Spain. The successful candidate will provide support for IM tools and processes and may interact with project leaders, SCRUM team(s) and members of the non-corn hybrid crop breeding staff to assist in the development and implementation of software solutions to meet research and production needs.

Provide training and client support for software applications. The successful candidate will troubleshoot and resolve technical problems primarily in support of sunflower and canola breeding in European countries. The successful applicant will work directly with breeders to become familiarized with research activities and processes relevant to the crop and region they support. They will interact directly with the app support representative in Johnston to implement software solutions, train clients worldwide on the use of software, and offer timely solutions to client IM needs. She/he will prepare and maintain training materials and provide training for new staff. 

Ensure that production bugs are routed through the recommended channels for prompt resolution and that clients’ needs are addressed in a timely and efficient manner. The successful candidate will work directly with clients and the development team(s) to promptly address urgent production issues. She/he may contribute to the establishment of a knowledge base to assist other client support representatives in addressing IM support needs, log production bugs, document bug fixes and ensure they are communicated to relevant RIM Support and Development teams.

Under the direction of the CPD RIM Support Manager, serve as the primary support contact on key initiatives and software development projects directly related to the crops and regions he/she supports. Responsibilities will include working with research clients to identify and document IM needs, working with software development staff to provide IM solutions when necessary, validating and testing newly developed software, and developing end-user documentation. Adapt and test compatibility of internal systems with locally available hardware.

Qualification

• B.S. degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Information Systems, Biology, Agronomy, Molecular Genetics, Plant Breeding or related field with 2 – 4 years of industry related experience or M.Sc. degree in Computer Science, Agronomy or related field with 0 – 2 years of industry related experience or B.S.
o Science competencies; Experience in lab/field/greenhouse plant breeding research. Knowledge of experimental design and/or statistics. Understanding of molecular genetics and molecular breeding applications as it pertains to cultivar development.

o IM competencies; Excellent database, web, and/or PC skills, both functional and technical skills preferred. Experience supporting or strong familiarity with Windows Operating System. Experience with database and/or network support. Familiarity with personal computer software, client-server technology, and internet technology. Familiarity with software application to plant breeding preferred.  Demonstrated understanding of relational databases and ability to extract, summarize, and report large amounts of data.  Strong desire to contribute to the discovery and implementation of IM solutions in support of breeding activities.

o General competencies; Excellent written and oral communication skills and demonstrated ability to communicate complex information in a clear and concise manner.  Experience coordinating technical training and support programs to clients. Experience with customer-service preferred. Demonstrated ability to effectively manage priorities in a high-demand, time-sensitive work environment.  Demonstrated ability to work cooperatively in a diverse team environment.  Strong interpersonal and communication skills.