Research Assistant II

Job description

Position Summary The Barrick and Lenski Labs in the Department of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology at Michigan State University are seeking a Research Assistant II to manage their research operations and participate in projects related to microbial evolution and synthetic biology. This position will focus on: (1) maintaining general laboratory operations and organization, (2) sustaining the long-term evolution experiment with E. coli ( https://the-ltee.org ); (3) experimentally characterizing phenotypic and genomic changes in these and other evolving microbial populations, and (4) utilizing synthetic biology and computational approaches to analyze the dynamics of evolution in this and other similar experiments. As time allows, there will be opportunities t o engage in other ongoing projects in the Barrick and Lenski Labs. Minimum Requirements: Knowledge equivalent to that which normally would be acquired by completing a four-year college degree program in Microbiology, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, Integrative Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Biochemistry, or a related field; three to five years of related and progressively more responsible or expansiv...