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The Research Foundation for The State University of New York at Stony Brook

Postdoctoral Associate

The Research Foundation for The State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, United States, 11790


Required Qualifications:

(as evidenced by an attached resume) Doctoral Degree (or foreign equivalent) in Biological Science or a closely related field in hand by the start of the appointment. High level of familiarity with microbial and human cell cultures.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in animal work (e.g. mouse genotyping, performing oral gavage, intravenous injections, intraperitoneal injection, organ excision, tissue DNA analysis, tissue metabolic analysis, such as flow cytometry, IHC, RNA base scope, and H&E staining).

High familiarity with tissue culture, such as transfection using plasmids or/and lentivirus.

Nanoparticle/vesicle analysis by TEM, SEM or X-ray.

Experience in doing research using metals, such as iron, zinc and others.

Brief Description of Duties: The Postdoctoral Associate will assist

Dr. Maurizio Del Poeta

in the

department of Microbiology and Immunology

.The incumbent will conduct research and ensure that all experiments are appropriately conducted following the policies and procedures of Stony Brook University.

Duties:

Performing animal experiments to determine the efficacy of antifungal drugs on mice survival and tissue burden culture (organ infectivity) upon fungal infections (e.g. cryptococcosis, candidiasis and aspergillosis). Microbial and human cell culture analysis. Performing metabolomics or/and metabolomics analysis, protein expression/purification or/and analysis.

Analyze, interpret the results of the analysis, solve potential problems and pitfalls, and discuss the data with the principal investigator.

Contribute to write reports and manuscripts on the results obtained.

Present the results in a logical way during research meetings or presentations and be able to provide ideas and set up next experimentations/questions.

Other duties as assigned.

Special Notes: The Research Foundation of SUNY is a private educational corporation. Employment is subject to the Research Foundation policies and procedures, sponsor guidelines and the availability of funding. FLSA Exempt position, not eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA. Minimum salary threshold must be met to maintain FLSA exemption.

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Resume/CV and cover letter should be included with the online application.

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Job Number:

2404246

Official Job Title

:

Postdoctoral Associate

Job Field

:

Post Doctoral

Primary Location

:

US-NY-Stony Brook

Department/Hiring Area

:

Microbiology and Immunology

Schedule

:

Full-time

Shift

:

Day Shift

Shift Hours

:

8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Posting Start Date

:

Dec 4, 2024

Posting End Date

:

Dec 20, 2024, 4:59:00 AM

Salary

:

$50,000-$65,000

Appointment Type

:

Regular

Salary Grade

:

E89

SBU Area

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