剑桥大学微生物学和系统生物学研究博士后招聘

Job Description

Overview

New Jersey’s academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University–New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and six centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, clinical and translational research, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.

Our faculty are teachers, clinicians, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.

Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state including New Brunswick, Piscataway, Newark, Scotch Plains, Somerset, Blackwood, and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, University Hospital in Newark, and other affiliates.

Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives.

Rutgers RBHS is an anchor institution that boasts locations in Newark, New Jersey, a city of promise.

Posting Summary

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey is seeking a motivated Postdoctoral Fellow for the Emerging Pathogen Department within the New Jersey Medical School. Under direction of the Principal Investigator, the Postdoctoral Fellow conducts microbiological and systems biology research activities to explore mechanisms underlying antibiotic lethality in bacterial pathogens.

Among the key duties of this position are the following:

Cultures and quantitates pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria including M. Tuberculosis, and select agents requiring work in BSL3 facilities including drug resistant strains.

Performs microbiological and molecular biology assays including, not limited to, MICs, antimicrobial-resistance

testing, time-kill experiments; DNA/RNA extraction, PCT and RT PCR, genetic cloning; DNA/RNA/protein gel experiments; single cell characterization by microscopy; -OMICs characterization by next-generation sequencing or mass spectrometry; phenotypic characterization by rodent infection models, flow cytometry, plate-based assays.

Assists in the development and testing of new assays including chemical and genetic screens, next-generation sequencing, and/or microscopy.

Performs network modeling, machine learning and/or bioinformatic analyses of experimental data.

Works safely in a BSL3 environment, compliant with biosafety protocols.

Assists in training graduate students and technicians and performs other related duties, as assigned.

Assists in laboratory organization, including the ordering and stocking of supplies for laboratory efficiency and cost effectiveness. Submits purchase recommendations, to the Principal Investigator, of equipment and supplies.

Assists the Principal Investigator with the preparation of grant applications and manuscripts.

Assists the Principal Investigator in written and formal presentations to industrial collaborators and funding agencies.