Overview | New Jersey’s academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University–New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and five centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.
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Posting Summary | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Research Teaching Specialist II for NJMS-Medicine-Infectious Diseases. This position is under direction, and is responsible for the management of a medium-sized laboratory area. Designs and conducts highly specialized, technical research. May supervise work of technicians and be assisted by lower-level professionals.
Among the key duties of this position are the following: - Is responsible for communicating, planning and performing experiments with intra and extra-institutional investigators performing genotypic and phenotypic studies of clinical and laboratory BSL2 and BSL3 pathogens as part of drug development efforts.
- Uses conventional and novel methods including advanced robotics to screen libraries of M. tuberculosis for drug tolerance and drug resistance phenotypes.
- Performs MIC testing, kill curves and other microbiological tests to characterize M. tuberculosis and other BSL2 and BSL3 pathogens.
- Designs and tests novel prodrugs against tuberculosis and other BSL2 and BSL3 pathogens 5. Performs genetic manipulations of M. tuberculosis and other mycobacteria including the development of resistant mutants, cloning, and gene knockouts.
- Performs microbiological characterization different M. tuberculosis strains and M. tuberculosis mutants.
- Performs biological experiments with inhibited M. tuberculosis.
- Performs transcriptional and metabolomic studies and uses systems biology approaches to analyze results.
- Prepares manuscripts for publication of data generated.
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Benefits | Rutgers offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees. For details, please go to http://uhr.rutgers.edu/benefits/benefits-overview. Rutgers also offers a benefit program to eligible full-time postdoctoral fellow students. For details, please go to https://finance.rutgers.edu/healthcare-risk/insurance/postdoctoral-health-insurance.
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