Research Microbiologist

Summary This position is located in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Field Organization, Plains Area (PA), National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), Manhattan, KS. The incumbent serves as a Research Microbiologist (Virology) in the Foreign Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit (FABADRU); where the primary research targets, RVFV and JEV, are zoonotic pathogens that do not exist in the United States (U.S.). Responsibilities Identify, propose, and perform independent and collaborative research to achieve the research objectives. Provide unique leadership and research skills to contribute to the identification, description, and characterization of the effects of foreign animal diseases in livestock. Develop molecular, clinical, and virology techniques to understand virus-host and/or virus-vector interactions. Develop methods or therapies as countermeasures to infection and disease. Organize a research program by establish...