PhD in Life Sciences

PhD position at Wageningen University and Research within the Animal Sciences Group as part of the digital transformation programme "Digital Biology – Integrating Behaviour, Health and Biodiversity in Animal Science"./nFocus: development and implementation of AI-driven tools to identify correlates of disease of complex pathogens by predicting protein structure and folding to assess antigenicity and immunogenicity, experimental in vitro validation, integration of genomic/proteomic/structural features, and development of machine-learning models for vaccine and diagnostic target selection./nLocation: Embedded within Wageningen Bioveterinary Research in Lelystad. Supervision: led by Prof. Annemarie Rebel and co-supervised by Dirkjan Schokker./nCollaborating institutes: Wageningen BioVeterinary Research (WBVR), Wageningen Livestock Research (WLR), Wageningen Marine Research (WMR), WIAS and Wageningen University.