Phd Fellow in Biofloc Microbiomes

The position
The Norwegian College of Fishery Science (NCFS) undertakes research and research based teaching of high national and international quality in an interdisciplinary environment. Research activities are provisionally organized into the groups of Living Marine Resources, Food science, Fish Health, Marine Drug Discovery, Marine Resource Management and Development, Environmental and Resource Economics.
The workplace is at UiT in Tromsø. You must be able to start in the position within a reasonable time after receiving the offer.
The project / The position’s field of research
The project will also deploy metatranscriptomics for multi kingdom taxonomic profiling (bacteria, microalgae, etc.) and to infer which genome-encoded functions are actively expressed under different biofloc maintenance and aquaculture practices, enabling data-driven strategies to steer floc composition. Expected contributions include a network-wide BF Characterization database and a list of benef...