The DSM Biotechnology Center (DBC) is a leading biotechnology campus located in the ancient city of Delft, The Netherlands, with over 400 employees who are committed to world class research for a broad range of business areas like pharma, food and industrial biotechnology. Within the DBC we are looking for an excellent scientist who will build a genome-scale metabolic model which could serve as a framework to interpret -omics data of essential fatty acid producing microorganisms. These organisms are capable of accumulating large amounts of PUFA’s and will be developed further as a lipid host system. In addition we would like to focus on regulation mechanism in these organisms by bioinformatics sequence analysis, -omics and re-sequencing mutant strains. In parallel a molecular biology toolbox will be developed by a second MC fellow. This creates the opportunity to develop GMO strains for lead validation. The ideal candidate has a PhD in modeling of complex biological pathways and a proven track record on combining strong bioinformatics skills with profound physiological knowledge. Postdoc experience is considered as an advantage. The candidate is non-Dutch and willing to move to the Netherlands for the period of the grant (24 months).

If you are interested please send a CV and motivation letter to: cees.sagt@dsm.com.