Genome-Scale Metabolic Modelling of Industrial Microbes [6 Months Internship]

📋 Description

• Implement and improve methods for automated high-throughput metabolic network reconstruction and
• Develop and diversify existing microorganism genomic annotation workflows
• Apply developed methods by formalizing reproducible and efficient pipelines for large-scale
• Deliver successful reconstruction and QC of metabolic networks of strains from genomic collection
• Deliver versioned Nextflow pipeline
• Present results to R&D teams

🎯 Requirements

• Final year master's or engineering student (Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Systems Biology
• Good programming skills in Python
• Familiarity with pipeline tools (e.g., Nextflow)
• Exposure to version control (Git/Gitlab) and reproducible research (e.g., Docker, Anaconda)
• Solid knowledge of genomics, biochemistry, and microbial metabolism
• Knowledge of constraint-based reconstruction and analysis (COBRA) methods

🎁 Benefits

• Dual supervision in interdisciplinary and dynamic teams
• Experience with real-life industrial data
• Strengthen professional portfolio through contributions to production-grade pipelines