The Center for Food Safety & Health at South Carolina State University’s Public Service & Agriculture (SC State PSA) seeks a post-doc to gain an understanding of the types of lytic phages in South Carolina’s agricultural and aquatic environments.
The researcher will detect, isolate, and characterize the lytic phages and investigate their antibacterial activity against common foodborne pathogens. The researcher is also responsible for data collection and analysis for the center’s other biocontrol research projects. This is an opportunity to join an exciting new research center at a premier 1890 Land Grant University. The center’s current area of focus is the biocontrol of foodborne pathogens in agriculture and food.
- Detect and isolate lytic bacteriophages in South Carolina’s agricultural and aquatic environments.
- Characterize the isolated phages and examine their interaction and antibacterial activity against common food-borne pathogens in model systems and food matrices of significance to South Carolina.
- Strong background and expertise in Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Microbial Pathogenesis, Bacteriology, and associated techniques
- Ph.D. in Food Science, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, or a related discipline
- Experience in phage biology, phage-host interactions, metagenomics, designing and performing microbial challenge studies will be considered as strong assets
- Experience in BSL2 settings
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