The Date Palm Genome Diversity/Purugganan laboratory in the Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University Abu Dhabi, seeks to recruit a research associate to work on evolutionary genomics of date palms.The successful applicant will conduct computational and experimental research on different aspects of date palm genomics, evolution and developmental/molecular biology.  The work will largely involve acquiring and analyzing large-scale date palm genomic and other omics dataset, and will involve major computational analysis in genomics and systems biology. The person may also be involved in experimental work on different aspects of date palm biology, including (but not limited to) flower development, sex determination, fruit development and tissue culture