Postdoctoral Associate, Microbiology and Immunology

Position Summary

A Postdoctoral Associate position on an NIH-funded research project is available in the laboratory of Dr. Chelsie Armbruster in the of the Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at University at Buffalo, the State University of New York.

The Armbruster lab studies microbe-microbe and host-microbe interactions in the context of the catheterized urinary tract. Current funded research is focused on identifying genomic adaptations that occur within bacteria during prolonged colonization of a urinary catheter and examining the influence of these adaptations on interactions with other bacteria as well as pathogenesis in various infection models.

The Postdoctoral Associate will be responsible for:

Isolating DNA from longitudinal bacterial isolates, generating high-quality hybrid genome assemblies

Examining gain and loss of genes and genomics islands as well as single nucleotide variation across longitud...