Research Microbiologist

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Job Description

Identify, propose, and perform independent and collaborative research to achieve the research objectives.

Provide unique leadership and research skills to contribute to the identification, description, and characterization of the effects of foreign animal diseases in livestock.

Develop molecular, clinical, and virology techniques to understand virus-host and/or virus-vector interactions.

Develop methods or therapies as countermeasures to infection and disease.

Organize a research program by establishing research priorities providing leadership in planning research projects.

Plan, execute, analyze and interpret experiments to provide technical information to collaborators both internal and external to ARS.

Supervise the execution of research, review research in progress, evaluate completed research, lead discussions on the interpretation of results, and report and publish in peer-reviewed scientific journals the progress of research.

Conduct research under Biosafety level (BSL)-2, BSL-3, BSL 3+ and/or BSL-3

Ag conditions.

Develop and submit annual reports, patent applications, manuscripts, and grant applications.