Postdoctoral Fellow; PREP

Department/Program:
Commercial and Government Programs Office

This position is part of the National Institute of Standards (NIST) Professional Research Experience (PREP) program. NIST recognizes that its research staff may wish to collaborate with researchers at academic institutions on specific projects of mutual interest, thus requires that such institutions must be the recipient of a PREP award. The PREP program requires staff from a wide range of backgrounds to work on scientific research in many areas.

Employees in this position will perform technical work that underpins the scientific research of the collaboration.

Research Title:

Staff Scientist

The work will entail:

Serve as lead virologist for the NIST microbiology program. This is a full-time laboratory position. Support the NIST microbiology program to develop viral/microbial standards and work with microbial genomics team to characterize and develop reference materials.

Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

- Lead the NIST virology laboratory program - responsible for a portfolio of diverse viruses (up to BSL-2) to meet varied stakeholder needs

- Perform viral and eukaryotic cell culture, plaque assays, optimization and develop of viral culture protocols

- Consult and work with stakeholders in the microbiome and pathogen detection communities

- Keep accurate and organized electronic records

- Present results of the work in the form of reports, manuscripts, oral presentations

§ PhD or close to completion.

§ Strong oral and written communication skills.

§ 2 years of relevant laboratory experience.

§ Experience measuring cytopathic effect using plaque assays.

§ Experience developing viral infectivity assays.

§ Experience measuring the infectivity of non-cytopathic viruses.

Please upload the following with your application:

-CV/Resume

* Please limit C.V to 3 pages only and ONLY include a valid email address for your contact info.
Please DO NOT include telephone numbers, home address or photos on your resume.

Privacy Act Statement

Authority: 15 U.S.C. § 278g-1(e)(1) and (e)(3) and 15 U.S.C. § 272(b) and (c)

Purpose: The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) hosts the Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) which is designed to provide valuable laboratory experience and financial assistance to undergraduates, post-bachelor's degree holders, graduate students, master's degree holders, postdocs, and faculty.

PREPis a 5-year cooperative agreement between NIST laboratories and participating PREP Universities to establish a collaborative research relationship between NIST and U.S. institutions of higher education in the following disciplines including (but may not be limited to) biochemistry, biological sciences, chemistry, computer science, engineering, electronics, materials science, mathematics, nanoscale science, neutron science, physical science, physics, and statistics. This collection of information is needed to facilitate administrative functions of the PREP Program.

Routine Uses: NIST will use the information collected to perform the requisite reviews of the applications to determine eligibility, and to meet programmatic requirements. Disclosure of this information is also subject to all the published routine uses as identified in the Privacy Act System of Records Notices: NIST-1: NIST Associates.

Disclosure: Furnishing this information is voluntary. When you submit the form, you are indicating your voluntary consent for NIST to use of the information you submit for the purpose stated.

The referenced salary range represents the minimum and maximum salaries for this position and is based on Johns Hopkins University's good faith belief at the time of posting. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. The actual compensation offered to the selected candidate may vary and will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which may include the successful candidate's geographic location, skills, work experience, internal equity, market conditions, education/training and other factors, as reasonably determined by the University.

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