Postdoc position at the University of Vienna: Genome topology dynamics 
in cephalopod development and evolution

A postdoc position is available at the Department for Neurosciences
and Developmental Biology at the University of Vienna in the group of
Oleg Simakov (https://neurodevbio.univie.ac.at/simakov-research/). The
group's long-standing interests center around comparative genomics
of animals and, more recently, emergence of evolutionarily
irreversible genomic configurations and their role in shaping
animal regulatory genome architectures (summarized here
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13227-025-00242-w).

The postdoc position is funded by a WEAVE grant with Eve Seuntjens (KU 
Leuven) and Simon Sprecher (U Fribourg) and will be strongly embedded 
into the collaborative network of the three labs with the other members 
of the international teams in Belgium and Switzerland. The project will 
study changes in regulatory landscape during neuronal development across 
several cephalopod species. Particular emphasis will be on the 
generation of comparative tissue and single-cell HiC datasets for these 
species, and computational comparisons. For current work from the lab in 
this area, please see this preprint: 
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.29.672809v1 . Previous 
experience with HiC or similar techniques is strongly desired.

Interested applicants should send their CV and letters of
recommendation directly to Oleg Simakov (oleg.simakov@univie.ac.at)
and Nina Znidaric (nina.znidaric@univie.ac.at) mentioning
"PDWEAVE" in the subject.  Monthly salary grades for
postdocs (including social and health insurance) are found at
https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/funding/steps-to-your-fwf-project/further-information/personnel-costs
. Location of work will be at the University Biology Building and Vienna
Zoo in Vienna (Austria).

Oleg Simakov <oleg.simakov@univie.ac.at>

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