CCMAR/BINCGAM/Research Fellowship; M/F | Biological Sciences
Listed on 2026-07-01
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Research/Development
Research Scientist
Location: Faro
Research Fellowship (M/F) in Biological Sciences
The Centre for Marine Sciences (CCMAR) opens one (01) Research Fellowship (BI) for a person with a Master Degree, of any nationality, including stateless candidates, and holders of political refugee statute, in the scientific field of Biological Sciences within the research project:
Healthy Bi4
Namibe – "Development of technological tools to improve and reduce health risks for bivalve consumption in Angola" funded by the Aga Khan, Network for Development and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P/MCTES under the following conditions:
Host and Contracting Institution: CCMAR
This fellowship is intended for master's degree holders that are enrolled in a non-academic degree course, integrated in the educational project of a higher education institution, and developed in association or cooperation with one or more R&D units at the starting date of the fellowship.
Work Plan, Tasks to perform and objectives:
The Healthy Bi4
Namibe project aims to study and characterize the impact of environmental threats (pathogens, toxic blooms, and environmental pollutants) on marine bivalves to develop and implement technologies to assess and ameliorate their quality and safety risk for human consumption in Namibe (Angola).
The fellowship holder will work under the supervision and guidance of the supervisors. Training will be provided, and the plan will be developed to contribute to finalize pending tasks within WP1
- Characterize the impact of the environment in marine bivalves and WP2
- Identify bivalve responsive genes to environmental challenges. Specifically, within task 1.1 Microbiome and task 2.1 Experimental challenges and Transcriptome.
Detailed work plan:
- Handling, analysis and interpretation of microbiome, transcriptome and meta genome data;
- Extraction of RNA/DNA from bivalve and environmental samples and perform molecular and expression analysis (PCR and q-PCR) of target gene family candidates in bivalve tissues;
- Develop PCRs for detection of microbial pathogens in bivalves and environmental samples;
- Contribute to scientific paper writing and supervision of undergraduate students and general laboratory organization and daily routines;
- Attend international conferences with oral/poster communications;
- Contribute to the organization of project final workshop and preparation of the e-book.
Scientific Supervisors:
Professor Doctor João Cardoso, Professor at the Algarve University, researcher at CCMAR and coordinator of the project and Professor Deborah Power, Full Professor at Algarve University and group leader at CCMAR.
Work place:
The workplace is CCMAR (Gambelas Campus of the Algarve University, Faro, Portugal) and other places necessary for the competition of the work plan.
Requirements for the application:
Applicants must meet all the conditions stated below:
Non-compliance justifies exclusion from the procedure. It is considered as an advantage:
Preference will be given to applicants clearly demonstrating they have experience in working with bivalves and in aquaculture.
Evaluation criteria:
Through the analysis of the application documents the evaluation criteria for the applications and their relative weight for ranking are as follows:
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