Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Positionsx3-Institute For Pandemic Preparedness And Prevention

MAIN RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:Establish sentinel surveillance sites to enable real-time testing and data reporting of novel members of the ESKAPE + VEstablish the drivers of virulence in novel members of the ESKAPE + VSet up a reporting system for pathogen diagnosis from the environment and fomites to enable real-time testing and dataStrengthen surveillance programs for diarrheal pathogens, to investigate the incidence, prevalence, and seasonal distribution of these infectiousModeling infectiousPublish at least three (3) research articles in DHET-accredited journals and bookELIGIBILITY 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-MicrobialThe 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-accreditedThe 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 NichePreference will be given to the following persons, taken into consideration and regarding employment equity:FemaleSouth African, or a permanent residentAPPLICATIONS: