Career
At the Antimicrobial Discovery Center, we are always looking for talented PhD students who can contribute skills and knowledge towards our research endeavors
Current Openings
We are always looking for PhD students who would like to contribute to our lab’s work!
Currently no open positions for Research Scientist role.
Postdoctoral Research Associate – Antibiotic Discovery
About the opportunity:
We are seeking a creative scientist with a background in natural products and/or microbiology to work on an antibiotic discovery project. The successful applicant will join a team of talented researchers at the Antimicrobial Discovery Center. Several drug lead candidates came out of our lab – ADEP (Conlon et al., Nature 2013); teixobactin (Ling et al., Nature 2015); darobactin (Imai et al., Nature 2019; Hundeep et al., Nature 2021), hygromycin A (Leimer et al., Cell 2021). We recently developed a microfluidics-based platform for antibiotic discovery that identifies attractive hits prior to chemical characterization. In combination with the ability to grow uncultured bacteria (Ling et al., Nature 2015), this gives us a virtually unlimited access to untapped biodiversity.
The appointment will be for a minimum of 2 years with possible extension, starting immediately. Competitive salary commensurate with experience, and a package of benefits.
Responsibilities:
- Assist in initiating, executing, and completing research and experiments
- Prepare and write research papers, presentations, grant proposals, etc
- Laboratory management
- Train graduate students
We are not currently seeking any additional research assistants or student volunteers at this time.
Currently no open positions for Research Technician role.