2 English-speaking jobs in Hamar

PhD position in diagnostics of infection and antimicrobial resistance. The successful candidate will work in the group of Professor Rafi Ahmad, developing a proof-of-concept diagnostic system for rapid, accurate, and sensitive on-site detection of infections. Applicants must have prior experience with methods development, sequencing technologies, and handling clinical samples. Fluency in Python and R is desired.

This PhD position at the University of Inland Norway focuses on developing a diagnostic system for rapid and accurate detection of infections, pathogen identification, and antibiotic susceptibility prediction. The successful candidate will optimize a novel sample preparation method, perform metagenomic and photonics analysis on clinical samples, and correlate data to evaluate the method's performance. Applicants must have a master's degree in a relevant field and experience with nucleic acid extraction, Oxford Nanopore sequencing, and bioinformatics analysis.