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Postdoctoral Fellow; Biological Sciences
Job Description
Classification Title:
Working Title:
Postdoctoral Fellow; Biological Sciences
Campus:
UNC Charlotte
Region:
Piedmont/Triangle
Job Summary:
"A Postdoctoral Fellow (""""postdoc"""") will report to Professor Reitzel and will be a senior member of Professor Reitzel's research group, supporting projects through original research, collaboration with other team members, and co-mentoring of students.The employee?s principal research responsibilities will be training and research as part of a funded NSF project. The successful applicant will study genome variation and gene expression in coastal invertebrates native to the Persian/Arabian Gulf and the United States in the lab of Adam Reitzel at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. This work will primarily involve the generation and analysis of sequence data from collected individuals from their native habitats. The project will involve analysis of large data sets that will require use of the university?s HPC.Candidates for this position should have demonstrated experience in the assembly and analysis of short-read data (e.g., Illumina) or long-read data (e.g., Oxford Nanopore). The employee will confer with Professor Reitzel on overall research direction and strategy but will exercise a considerable amount of independent judgment and original thinking in carrying out research that contributes to original knowledge and advances the University?s reputation in research. The employee will publish research results, in collaboration with Professor Reitzel, in peer-reviewed journals. The employee will share student mentoring with Professor Reitzel and will participate in departmental seminars and other professional activities.Postdoc appointments are characterized by all of the following conditions:* the appointee was recently (within the last eight years) awarded a Ph.D. or equivalent doctorate (e.g., Sc.D., M.D.);* the appointment is temporary;* the appointment involves substantially full-time research or scholarship;* the appointment is viewed as preparatory for a full-time academic and/or research career;* the appointee works under the supervision of a faculty member; and* the appointee has the freedom and is expected to publish the results of his or her research or scholarship during the period of appointment.As an EOE/AA employer and an ADVANCE Institution that strives to create an academic climate in which the dignity of all individuals is respected and maintained, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte encourages applications from all underrepresented groups. Applicants are subject to a criminal background check."
Minimum Qualifications:
1. Ph.D. in Biology, Bioinformatics or related discipline2. A strong experimental and computational background with evidence of these skills (e.g.,publications) related to the generation and analysis of high throughput sequence data.3. Optional: Previous research in molecular biology4. Optional. Previous research experience in the ecology and evolution of marine invertebrates, particularly cnidarians.
Position Number:
POST40
Posting Date:
08/22/2022
Closing Date:
09/05/2022
American Recovery & Reinvestment Act Funded:
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