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my name is Nathan Springer I'm a faculty member in the department plant biology
at the University Minnesota
and I'm a geneticist, so I'm interested in studying
the basis of variation it's an exciting time to be a geneticist
with the development of new sequencing technologies there are a number of
longstanding questions that
we couldn't address previously that now are quite tractable
there is a Minnesota recognizes that this is a growing area and his place an
emphasis
on recruiting individuals that use genomic approaches to understand
longstanding questions in biology. We have developed a cluster hiring approach
and we'll be hiring four individuals in the coming years
that all units genomic approaches to study
variation. We're looking for individuals to do this a different levels
some individuals might be made study epigenetics they might study the basis
I of behavioral traits complex traits
they might study the base disease. We would expect that the individuals hired
are this cluster would be involved in developing new approaches to teaching
genomics and genetics both at the undergraduate and graduate-level
the growing emphasis in this field and the relevance of genomics to everyday
life
means that we need to do a better job training students in this field
The University of Minnesota has some wonderful infrastructure to enable
genomics research there's a core sequencing facility
they can provide really useful help in developing the
research that you need but there's also a strong support for computational
biology we have Minnesota super computer Institute
as well as other initiatives that will develop
computational tools that would be important for genomics research here