Two Postdoctoral Researchers, Human Microbiome Research at University of Helsinki

Two Postdoctoral researchers

to work on human gut microbiome data processing, analysis and integration. The postdoctoral researchers will work in the following projects:

1) Academy of Finland funded project Early gut microbiota development: Perinatal determinants and impact on growth and health at four years. This project builds on our recently established Health and Early Life Microbiota (HELMi) birth cohort https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/6/e028500 that investigates the drivers and health consequences of the early microbiota development in thousand Finnish children. The appointment is for 3 years, starting February-March 2020 at the latest.

2) H2020 funded project on Sustainable Innovation of Microbiome Applications in Food System (https://simbaproject.eu/). The post-doctoral researcher will work on analysing and modelling the interactions between diet, gut microbiota and intestinal and plasma metabolites and health markers in relation to gut health, type 2 diabetes and colorectal cancer. The appointment is a joint project between the Human Microbiome Research Program and Department of Food and Nutrition in the group of Dr. Anne-Maria Pajari who is the leader of WP5 on Sustainable food and gut microbiomes in the SIMBA project. The appointment is for 1.5 to 2 years with flexible start during spring 2020.

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Two Postdoctoral Researchers, Human Microbiome Research at University of Helsinki