Dr Samuel Alizon and Prof Vincent Foulongne are seeking candidates to fill in a position, with a joint funding between the University and the University Hospital in Montpellier (France).

The project will revolve around the vaginal microbiota, especially the circular viruses and plasmids. Data will original from the PAPCLEAR clinical study, which follows young women longitudinally.

The ideal candidate will have a strong bioinformatics background and experience with analysing NGS data. Skills in basic molecular biology, ecology & evolution, or biostatistics would be a plus.

Additional details about the PhD project can be found here: https://www.adum.fr/as/ed/voirproposition.pl?langue=fr&matricule_prop=24865&site=CBS2#version

Details about the clinical study itself can be found here: http://alizon.ouvaton.org/EVOLPROOF.html

Applicants should send a CV, a letter of motivation and the names of at least two referees familiar with their work to samuel.alizon@cnrs.fr, ideally before October 30.

The PhD needs to start by the end of the year.