Postdoctoral fellow: Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management 2165 views

Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) invites applications for 3 year postdoctoral position. The position is funded by the Research Council of Norway.

About the Project:

• Basic research will be conducted for a vaccination program for honey bees as honey bees are essential pollinators in many agricultural systems.
• A considerable number of colonies are lost each year to disease. Bee queens can protect offspring against pathogens with maternal factors transferred to bee eggs (trans-generational immune priming).
• This priming mechanism, how the offspring is affected by queen vaccination, and the economic benefits of vaccination for the beekeeping industry will be studied.
• The project is expected to involve academic patenting.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Resolve mechanisms of trans-generational immune priming
• Conduct and supervise vaccination experiments
• Facilitate academic patenting of inventions
• Obtain biological material from international partners
• Coordinate international collaboration
• Co-supervise PhD student (to be hired in 2018)

Qualifications

• Applicant must hold PhD in insect physiology or a related field
• Applicant must have some experience in Wet-lab, documented with publications
• Applicant must have research experience with insect molecular biology; entomophathogens
• Applicant must have acquaintance to student supervision or assistant teaching and experience with traditional statistical methods

Desired Academic qualifications:

1. Specialization in insect immunology
2. Research experience with social insects, incl. honey bees
3. Research experience with insect protein analysis
4. International research experience
5. Experience with stakeholder communication
6. Knowledge about academic patenting

Application:

Apply online via the University’s Web Recruitment System