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Post Doctoral Scientist Job Description
- Prepare reports and manuscripts
- Development and performance of experimental assessment interrogating immune function in human samples and animal models
- Independently design and implement state-of-the-art technologies for characterizing and quantifying antigens in vaccines relevant to animal health diseases
- Design and conduct behavioral research studies and analyze their results
- Write scientific reports of studies and present them also at scientific conferences
- Supervise and/or lead the creation of stimuli and software for the experiments
- Participate in lab meetings, seminars, and colloquia at GWU
- Lead data collection efforts associated with the Army Research Office grant
- Apply for extramural sources of funding
- Independently conducts active laboratory research
- Effective oral and written communication skills, , the ability to get messages across that have the desired effect
- Knowledge and experience in surface and colloid chemistry is desirable
- Demonstrated ability to build constructive and effective relationships and to foster a sense of teamwork and collaboration with others
- Formulation characterization methods, , viscosity, particle size, flash point, solubility preferred
- Design and evaluation of milling studies, stability studies, wetter, defoamer, dispersant, emulsifier evaluations and comparison against competition preferred
- Capable to evaluate suitability of newly developed formulations through physical, and biological analyses such as tank mix compatibility
Post Doctoral Scientist Job Description
- Perform Proof-of-Principal, clinical, or consumer studies, and will contribute to overall project strategy on how to positively influence a baby’s daily routines and rituals
- Work internally and collaborate externally, leverage their existing network and create new internal and external connections with experts
- Partner with cross-functional teams to identify project requirements and desired outcomes
- Establish study protocols in collaboration with J&J teams and be responsible for the successful execution of these studies
- Be well versed/experienced in state of the art methodologies within the field, will acquire data, analyze the data and interpret results
- Document results in the form of reports, papers and communicate findings to R&D colleagues and management
- Where appropriate, author peer reviewed journal articles and white papers related to their research
- The first project focuses on steroid receptor coactivator 3/amplified in breast cancer 1 (SRC-3/AlB1), which is the second most over-expressed oncogenes in all cancers
- The second project focuses on two epigenetic modulators and members of the AT-rich interaction domain family, ARID4A and ARID4B
- Post Doctoral Scientist will contribute to existing projects and develop new research related to sea level rise and coastal wetland ecology
- PhD with research in Chemistry or related
- Knowledge of surfactants and polymers is preferred
- Experience designing experiments to evaluate formulations and their processes
- Ability to solve complex problems based on knowledge and experience involving different areas of engineering and formulation technology
- Proficiency in laboratory equipment set-up and operation and safe chemical handling
- Demonstrated technical / scientific leadership skills
Post Doctoral Scientist Job Description
- Research includes field work in the Chesapeake Bay along the eastern shore at existing sites and may extend to other localities and regions
- Post Doctoral Scientist will make use of laboratory resources and equipment (muffle furnace, ball mill grinder, drying ovens, balances and water quality monitoring probes
- Post Doctoral Scientist will help PI supervise 3-4 graduate and undergraduate students
- Writes manuscripts to disseminate results, presents data at lab meetings, presents data at conferences
- Practical design of mass spectrometry systems
- Assembly and evaluation of prototype systems
- Working with engineering team to implement designs
- Acquisition and interpretation of data and diagnostics
- Work closely with development and applications scientists to create analytical solutions
- Take responsibility for assigned projects from inception to completion
- Publications in leading conferences and journals such as IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), knowledge of parallel processing, and interconnect technologies
- Proficiency with standard Ca2+ imaging data analysis is preferred, but not required
- Experience in formulation development for biologics (mAbs) in particles, polymers, hydrogels, is highly desirable
- Analytical method development for proteins in different formulations
- Knowledge of formulation strategies for localized oral delivery of biotherapeutics
- Highly motivated,flexible and willing to learn new techniques
Post Doctoral Scientist Job Description
- Maintain appropriate laboratory notebooks, write research reports, periodically present work to the R&D team to the management team
- Support preparation of patent applications to protect proprietary technology
- Present results at technical meetings and/or publish in peer-review journals
- Working with faculty and students from GWU and other universities to propose, plan, mount and perform experiments at Jefferson Laboratory and other national and international nuclear facilities
- Write high level programs to collect the data
- Analyze data from these experiments and interpret the results
- Present the results at scientific conferences
- Publish papers in Physics Journals
- Purchase and build equipment as needed to perform the experiments
- Supervise PhD, undergraduate and study staff work with data cleaning
- Knowledgeable, creative, and collaborative
- Recent graduate of a PhD program in organic/organometallic chemistry looking for post-doctoral R & D laboratory experience in organic/organometallic/ homogenous catalysis for organic synthesis
- Experience in organo-phosphine based ligand synthesis and catalytic process development are preferable
- Hands on experience in instrumentation techniques such as GC- MS, HPLC, IR and NMR spectroscopy are essential
- Strong verbal and written technical communication skills are crucial experience working in a multi-discipline team environment
- Highly motivated, safety oriented, self-driven individual to plan and execute laboratory work to meet deadlines is also required
Post Doctoral Scientist Job Description
- Conduct hierarchical and other complex data analyses
- Publish in refereed journals in collaboration with the principal investigator and/or students and staff working on the project
- Assist the PI with day to day management of the project
- Participates in research study design
- Oversees and trains lower level research staff
- Develops analytical and/or software solutions for research questions
- Prepares reports and manuscripts for publication
- Candidate will work with Dr
- Design and conduct experiments under the supervision of the PI
- Application of lab techniques such as tissue dissection , primary cell culture, qPCR, molecular cloning, immunoblotting, immunoprecipitation, immunostaining, and confocal microscopy imaging
- Experience investigating the various components of the immune system, understanding the repertoire in context of diseases
- Professional scholarly activity
- Reading and writing of NMR pulse sequences (Bruker or Varian)
- Knowledge of virology of retroviruses such as HIV and biology of ubiquitine mediated protein degradation
- Candidates should possess a Ph.D
- Familiarly with materials characterization techniques such as various forms of electron microscopy and adjunct materials characterization techniques are expected