Regular Faculty - Ecological Immunology

Posting Number: F001457P

Advertising Pay Range:
Commensurate with experience and qualifications

Location:

Moscow

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Employee Category: Faculty

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Title:

Position Control Number: 4632

Suffix: 00

Contingency Code: Not Applicable

FTE: 1.00

Contract Basis: Academic Year

Anticipated Contract

Start Date:

08/16/2027

FLSA Status: Exempt

Tenure Tracking: Tenure Track

Rank: Assistant Professor

Extension Type: Not Applicable

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Administrative Appointment End Date (if applicable):

The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Idahoinvites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor inEco-Immunology. We seek an innovative scientist who investigatesimmune function in wild or free-ranging animals and uses thesesystems to address fundamental questions at the interface of immunology, ecology, evolution, and infectious disease. We arebroadly interested in candidates whose research examines how immuneresponses vary among individuals, populations, species, or environments, and how this variation influences infection, disease,fitness, host–pathogen interactions, or population and communityprocesses.

Research approaches may span scales from molecular and cellular mechanisms to whole-organism, population, and evolutionaryprocesses. We particularly welcome candidates who combine fieldstudies of natural populations with experimental, molecular,genomic, serological, cellular, or computational approaches.

• ecological andevolutionary immunology
• immune function in wild animalpopulations
• environmental influences on immunity and diseasesusceptibility
• comparative and evolutionary immunology
• immunological variation within and among natural populations
• wildlife disease ecology and emerging infectious disease

The successful candidate will establish an externally funded,internationally recognized research program; mentor undergraduate and graduate students; contribute to the intellectual life of the Department of Biological Sciences; and participate in interdisciplinary collaborations across the University of Idaho.

The position offers opportunities to interact with faculty workingin ecology and evolution, infectious disease, immunology, genomics,computational biology, mathematical biology, and host–pathogeninteractions.

The successful candidate will contribute to undergraduate and graduate education in Biological Sciences. Depending on expertise and departmental needs, teaching may include courses in areas suchas immunology, organismal biology, ecology, infectious disease, orrelated subjects, as well as development of advanced courses in the candidate's area of specialization. The successful candidate willalso mentor graduate and undergraduate researchers.

Duties include teaching an average of 1.5 classes per academic year; maintaining an active research program that includes securing external funding to support research activities in area of expertise; mentoring undergraduate and graduate students; attendingfaculty meetings and departmental seminars; serving on department,college, and/or university committees.

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Contingency

Description:

Teaching & Advising: 35%

Scholarship & Creative Activity: 55%

Outreach & Extension: 5%

University Service & Leadership: 5%

Listed degree qualification is required at time of application.

• An earned doctorate in a field relevant to Ecological Immunology.
• A minimum of 2 years of post-doctoral research experience relevant to the proposed research program.
• An active research…