We are offering a PhD Position: “Biodiscovery of novel extremozymes from marine deep-sea sponge microbiomes” (deadline Sept 30th, 2024)
The PhD thesis in the RU Marine Symbioses at GEOMAR will focus on large-scale bioinformatic analysis of deep-sea sponge metagenomes to discover novel enzymes from their cryptic microbiome. Machine learning algorithms will be developed and utilized to identify novel, biotechnologically relevant extremozymes and to unravel microbial community interactions within the sponge holobiont. The prospective candidate will heterologously express extremozymes in diverse expression hosts, verify their enzymatic activity and characterize the respective reaction parameters.
Questions? Pls contact Dr. Erik Borchert (eborchert@geomar.de)
