[Background of the recruitment and description of the project]
* Background of the recruitment and description of the project
Position Summary
The World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI) Bio2Q Center at Keio University (hereafter referred to as "Bio2Q") is recruiting postdoctoral researchers for FY2025. We look forward to receiving applications from creative, highly motivated scientists who will dynamically engage in Bio2Q research activities.

Outline
The WPI program promotes the establishment of research centers that attract world-class researchers, implement changes in the existing academic system, and forge new academic fields.
Bio2Q will address the question of how human homeostasis is regulated by the epithelial, immune, neural, and metabolic systems, with an emphasis on microbiome analysis. The center will thereby establish a new form of life science aimed at understanding human multiorgan homeodynamics at resolutions higher than those achieved so far. Bio2Q will implement quantum computing together with artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze multiomics data and elucidate the multiorgan interaction pathways underlying human disease. Furthermore, we will also establish a reverse-translation workflow to decipher the causal relationships within the newly uncovered pathways.
Bio2Q Postdoctoral Fellowships aim to foster globally active researchers and will provide creative, independent scientists with a place where they can autonomously conduct research on a topic within the Bio2Q scope.

Bio2Q Website
https://www.bio2q.keio.ac.jp

Bio2Q Outline (Japanese)
https://www.jsps.go.jp/file/storage/e-toplevel/04_project_plans/0-17Bio…

Bio2Q Concept
https://www.jsps.go.jp/file/storage/e-toplevel/04_project_plans/1-17Bio…

In line with the WPI missions of globalization and diversity, when applicants are judged to be equally qualified based on fair and impartial criteria, international and female applicants will be given preference. The official language of the center is English.
https://bio2q.keio.ac.jp/wp-content/uploads/2_Postdoc.pdf

[Work content and job description]
We are seeking those with relevancy to the research areas of the Bio2Q in the fields of science and technology such as Mathematical Sciences (pure mathematics, applied mathematics, computer science, information science, artificial intelligence, etc.), Biology (cell biology(protein damage and cell repair), developmental biology, structural biology, microbiology, molecular biology(Primate proteostasis, protein disaggregation) imaging and measuring,
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etc.), and Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (neural science, immunology, oncology, genome science, etc.).
*We currently welcome chemists who can synthesize and analyze microbiome-derived metabolites.
The research fields and host laboratories are available here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jecsIl2c1nMibir-1szWJ995i7P8kxDa/view?…

* Assigned department
Existing departments

[Work location]
* Address
160-8582 Tokyo Shinjuku-ku, Shinanomachi　35
Applicants will work at host laboratories within the Bio2Q research center. The main campus is Keio University School of Medicine (Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo), but locations may differ depending on the host laboratory.

[Number of hired]
Number of hired:2 person(s)
Number of hired description:The posting remains open until the positions are filled.