PhD Candidate: Spatial Melanoma Biology & TME Analytics

Euraxess; Firenze; In loco; EUR 54.000 - 72.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

The PhD fellowship will be hosted by Università degli Studi di Firenze (UNIFI) within the Advanced Bioimaging Research center (ABiR) in Florence, Italy, under the SPACE-MEL MSCA Doctoral Network.

The candidate will investigate microenvironmental and sub-clonal heterogeneity in mucosal melanoma using spatial multi-omics and computational analyses, collaborating with international partners and secondments.

Competenze

• Strong background in biology, biotechnology, molecular biology, cancer biology, pathology, computational biology or related biomedical discipline.
• Strong interest in melanoma biology, tumour microenvironment, tumour progression, biomarker discovery and translational cancer research.
• Basic knowledge of histology, pathology, immunohistochemistry, molecular biology and/or omics-based approaches.
• Interest in spatial biology, single-cell/spatial omics technologies and integration of tissue-based, molecular and clinical data.
• Basic computational and data-analysis skills, or willingness to develop them; experience with R, Python or bioinformatic workflows would be an advantage.
• Ability to work with human biological material, biobank resources and associated clinical data with ethics and data protection.
• Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and willingness to follow SOPs and reproducible research practices.
• Ability to work independently and in an interdisciplinary international team.
• Willingness to travel and relocate temporarily for secondments.
• Proficiency in English and strong communication skills.

Conoscenze

Biology

Molecular biology

Computational biology

R

Python

English

Histology

Pathology

Formazione

Master degree or equivalent

Strumenti

R

Python

Descrizione del lavoro

The PhD fellowship will be hosted by Università degli Studi di Firenze (UNIFI) within the Advanced Bioimaging Research center (ABiR) in Florence, Italy, under the SPACE-MEL MSCA Doctoral Network.

The candidate will investigate microenvironmental and sub-clonal heterogeneity in mucosal melanoma using spatial multi-omics and computational analyses, collaborating with international partners and secondments.