The Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Reasarch (IOW) offers a master thesis in the field of

bioinformatics with the topic

In the central Black Sea there is a encompassing suboxic to sulfidic waters. An initial analysis revealed that the microbial communities are strongly stratified along the redox gradient and dominated by particular bacterial and archaeal groups. These groups are involved in different microbial processes, such as nitrification, denitrification, Annamox and sulfur oxidation.

The focus of this master thesis lies in the metagenomics analysis of the different layers of the Black Sea redoxcline. A key aspect of this project is the identification and characterization of the microbial key players, in particular the metabolic reconstruction of the specific pathways.

Skills

• experience in applied/microbial bioinformatics
• experience in programming (preferably Python and/or R) and Unix
• experience in version control (Git)
• experience in containerization (e.g. Singularity or Docker) or conda desired
• experience in workflow frameworks (e.g. Snakemake or NextFlow) desired

Contact

Please send your application (or questions) to johannes.werner@io-warnemuende.de.