Call for selection for the recruitment of temporary staff for the BLUEBIOLAB project

February 18, 2020

A selection process is being held for the recruitment of two researchers on a temporary basis as research staff for the BLUEBIOLAB project, a project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund FEDER within the framework of the Interreg V A Spain-Portugal (POCTEP) 2014-2020 program, with the aim of incorporating researchers who will join the research groups participating in the project to develop their research in the three key lines of the project:

Aquaculture and biotechnology
Development of new bioactive compounds and biomaterials of marine origin
Use of omics technologies for understanding marine biodiversity

Applicants must meet the following requirements by the application deadline:

General requirements:

Have reached the age of eighteen and have not reached the age established, in general, for retirement.
Ter capacidade funcional para o desempeño das tarefas do perfil solicitado.
Not be separated, through disciplinary proceedings, from the service of any of the Public Administrations, nor be disqualified from performing public functions.

Specific requirements:

Place 1:

Master in the scientific-technological field.
Experience in in vitro testing of biomaterials.

Skills:

Expert in cell tests.
Infrastructure management for in vitro tests.
Physical-chemical characterization of biomaterials.
Experience in preparing scientific publications.
Oral and written communication in English.

Research lines related to:

Obtaining biomaterials of marine origin.
Physico-chemical characterization of biomaterials of marine origin.
In vitro biocompatibility tests.

Place 2:

Master’s degree in the scientific-technological field.
Experience in nucleic acid extraction and bioinformatics analysis of HTS data

Skills:

Experience in the extraction and handling of nucleic acids (DNA/RNA) in the laboratory
Experience in bioinformatics analysis of data from mass sequencing techniques (HTS).
Experience with some programming language for bioinformatics analysis of sequences (Perl, Python, R or any other)
Oral and written communication in English.

Research lines related to:

Extraction and purification of RNA/DNA from marine ecosystems
Characterization of microbiomes and metagenomes
Bioinformatic analysis of marine microbial communities

Contract characteristics

The recruitment will be formalized with a temporary employment contract for an amount to be agreed. The duration of the profile 1 contract will be 9 months (forecast for recruitment in January 2021) and the profile 2 contract will be 9 months (forecast for recruitment in April 2020)