Postdoc Researcher

Organisation/Company CRAG-Centre de Recerca Agrigenòmica Research Field Biological sciences » Biology Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Positions Postdoc Positions Final date to receive applications 19 Mar 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Madrid) Country Spain Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 37.5 Offer Starting Date 21 Mar 2026 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

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ABOUT CRAG:

CRAG is an independent research institution engaged in leading-edge basic and applied plant and farm animal sciences. CRAG is established as a Consortium of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and University of Barcelona (UB). The Center is located at the UAB Campus, and currently hosts 200 members from across the world.

The Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) is looking for a Postdoc Researcher to be part of the groups of Genomics of ancient crops and domestication and Rosaceae Genetics and Genomics. CRAG Researchers led by Laura Botigué and Raúl Castanera have generated a super-pangenome for Brassica and Pea, featuring an extensive representation of domestic varieties, landraces and crop wild relatives.

The candidate will be in charge of:

• Analysing SV in the pangenome of Brassica that are close to genes and may have been involved in the domestication process.
• Analysing whole genome SNP variability in a collection of Brassicas aligned to the the super-pagenome, assessing whole genome variability and identifying regions of the genome potentially under positive selection.
• Analyse Transposable Insertion Polymorphisms in the pea super-pangenome in association with known phenotypes (TIP-GWAS) and assessing the consistency in a collection of resequenced Pisum accessions.

The tasks are included within the framework of the project funded by the Horizon Europe funding scheme within the HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV-01-13 Topic REFERENCE “”.TITLE COUSIN - “Crop Wild Relatives utilisation and conservation for sustainable agriculture”

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Research Field Biological sciences » Biology Education Level PhD or equivalent

• Degree in Biological Sciences, Genetics, Plant Biology or similar.
• PhD in Plant Biology with a focus on crops and genome assembly.

• Strong competence in the use of bioinformatic tools such as plink or bcftools is a must.
• Excellent command of R and Python scripting is required.
• Strong competence of maneuvering in the Terminal and in a High Performance Computer is desireable. The candidate will need to create its own environments to install multiple programs and launch jobs.

• More than two years experience in genome assembly using Pac Bio and Nanopore data.
• Experience in genome annotation.
• More than 5 years experience in whole genome sequence analysis in the framework of population diversity and positive selection.