Postdoctoral Research Fellowship PositionsX3-Institute for Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention - Eastern Cape
MAIN RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:
Establish sentinel surveillance sites to enable real-time testing and data reporting of novel members of the ESKAPE + V
Establish the drivers of virulence in novel members of the ESKAPE + V
Set up a reporting system for pathogen diagnosis from the environment and fomites to enable real-time testing and data
Strengthen surveillance programs for diarrheal pathogens, to investigate the incidence, prevalence, and seasonal distribution of these infectious
Modeling infectious
Publish at least three (3) research articles in DHET-accredited journals and book
ELIGIBILITY AND DESIRED PROFILE:
The candidate will have a PhD in Microbiology, Molecular biology, Computational biology, Bioinformatics, Microbial genomics, Biostatistics, or related fields, and experience in high-throughput genomic technologies and Disease Modeling and Anti-Microbial
The candidate will have a proven competence to publish in Q1 and Q2 journals in NCBI-indexed and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) Journals which shall all be DHET-accredited
The postdoctoral fellow should be willing to support the postgraduate students research in the Patho-Biocatalysis Group (PBG) and the Infectious Diseases and Medicinal Plants Research Niche
Preference will be given to the following persons, taken into consideration and regarding employment equity: