Research Assistant I - van Opijnen and Rakoff-Nahoum labs

Position Summary:
The van Opijnen and Rakoff-Nahoum labs are seeking a Research Assistant for a minimum of 2 years.

The position is ideal for postbacs applying to graduate/medical school in the near future. The position would involve molecular biology, DNA/RNA extraction/purification, library prep and next generation sequencing for bacterial genomics, metagenomics, bacterial and host RNASeq, metatranscriptomics and single cell RNASeq

The goal of the Rakoff-Nahoum lab is a comprehensive understanding of the host-associated microbiota at various levels of biological organization: from genes to molecules to organisms to ecosystems, and importantly, the determination of cause and effect. To achieve this, we couple empirical approaches with ecological and evolutionary frameworks. We use the tools of classic bacterial genetics of gut anaerobes including the cultivation, random and directed mutagenesis of individual members of the mammalian microbiota (Bacteroidet...