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CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Pathogen Profiling of Mice
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CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system.
CSIRO has an exciting opportunity for a CERC Fellow to join the Rodent Management Team which is leading Australia’s efforts in understanding and developing management strategies for tacking mouse plagues. Effort focusses on monitoring and forecasting mouse populations, improving control strategies, and understanding mouse ecology and behaviour in no-till farming systems. Mouse forecast models are very good at predicting increases in mouse abundance, but very poor in predicting when a population “crash” will occur. We know that disease plays an important role in this “crash”, but neither the pathogens involved nor the epidemiological dynamics of disease progression through populations are currently understood.
A new area of work that emerged during the mouse plague that affected much of NSW in 2021 is the role and impact of diseases in mouse populations.
Given recent advances in disease profiling using mRNA sequencing (metatranscriptomics), there is strong interest from industry and government to screen mouse populations for a range of diseases and parasites to better understand the role of disease in influencing population dynamics, the disease risk posed to humans and livestock, and to inform development of potential options for improved control.
Location: Black Mountain, ACT
Salary: AU$89k - AU$98k plus up to 15.4% superannuation
Tenure: Specified term of 3 years
Reference: 80892
For full details about this role please view the Position Description
To be eligible for this role, you must be an Australian/New Zealand Citizen, Australian Permanent Resident.
The successful applicant will be required to obtain and provide a National Police Check or equivalent. Additional integrity checks may be required for specific roles which require security clearance for working with children, Australian Government cybersecurity requirements or other identified security roles.
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Please apply on-line and provide a cover letter and CV that best demonstrate your motivation and ability to meet the requirements of this role.
13 February 2022, 11:00pm AEDT