Researcher in hybrid epigenetics and gene expression

An early-career, career-development researcher position in the ERC-funded project "Hybridization derived novel patterns of gene expression", led by Anna Runemark in the Speciation, Adaptation and Co-Evolution lab, Biodiversity and Evolution division, Lund University. The project asks how far hybridisation alters chromatin distribution and DNA methylation, and how this changes gene expression and creates potentially adaptive variation. It uses a dataset of three independent lineages of the hybrid Italian sparrow (Passer italiae) and their parental species from common-garden populations.

The researcher will lead wet-lab strategies for CUT&RUN, analyse gene expression, EM-seq, ATAC-seq and CUT&RUN data, interpret and publish the results, and may teach on the bioinformatics programme (reference PA2026/2987).

PhD (or international equivalent) within the time window stated for this career-development position; experience in bioinformatic analysis of gene expression and epigenomic data.