The Dept. of Life Sciences at Long Island University Post announces the opening for a Postdoctoral, beginning June 4, 2024. This position is supported by NSF Award # 2025009, under program NSF 20-513, Understanding the Rules of Life: Microbiome Theory and Mechanisms, for the corresponding grant entitled EF: Collaborative Research: MTM 2: Marine Invertebrate Microbiome Assembly, Diversification, and Coevolution.

 

Responsibilities:

The responsibilities of the Postdoctoral Fellow include, but are not limited to the following:

1. Fieldwork during the summer, including placing and retrieving settlement plates attached to cinderblocks, settlement lines, or other devices.

2. Processing collected plates by photographing said plates, preserving samples, keying out and identifying individual organisms, preparing samples for DNA analysis, and barcoding.

3. Supervising and mentoring undergraduate and high school students.

4. Laboratory management.

5. Library research 6. Analyzing, writing up, and publishing the resulting research in a peer-reviewed journal.

7. Grant writing

 

Qualifications: The person applying must have recently received a Ph.D. in Biology or a related field, be familiar with near-shore marine habitats surrounding Long Island, New York, and be familiar with the local marine invertebrates. This person must have experience preparing samples for next-generation sequencing and sequencing with nanopore technology. The individual must also have experience analyzing the sequences and using databases to determine the microbiome of the host invertebrate’s symbiotic microbiome. It is preferable if the individual has published or is in the process of publishing research on marine invertebrate microbiomes.

 

Compensation: The Postdoctoral Fellow position is full-time and will be paid at a rate of $60,000 per year. The contract will begin on June 4, 2024, and end on June 3, 2025, with the possibility of an extension thereafter.

 

Supervisor: The Graduate Research Assistant will report directly to Dr. Kent Hatch, the PI to whom the grant was awarded.

 

LIU is an equal opportunity employer. LIU is committed to extending equal opportunity in employment to all qualified candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of our academic community. LIU encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender and/or gender identity or expression, marital or parental status, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship status, veteran or military status, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal laws. Hiring is contingent on eligibility to work in the United States.