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The USDA Agricultural Research Service is currently recruiting for a Research Microbiologist Aid at the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Plains Area, Soil Management and Sugarbeet Research Unit in Fort Collins, CO.

 

Duties:   

  • Develop model systems for investigating and defining mechanisms of pathogenicity for bacterial pathogens of cold-water marine fish species.
  • Assess efficacy and risk of current and novel microbial disease treatment methods in cold-water aquaculture.
  • Evaluate microbial community interactions as it relates to fish health and disease. These include microbiology/virology, molecular genetics, microbial genomics, biochemistry, microscopy, and molecular biology techniques.
  • Evaluate microbial community interactions as it relates to fish health and disease. These include microbiology/virology, molecular genetics, microbial genomics, biochemistry, microscopy, and molecular biology techniques.

 

Experience:  For the GS-11 and higher grade levels of such specialized positions, the experience must have been sufficiently specialized to ensure adequate familiarity with the area of specialization or applied field of microbiology or have direct application in the area for which the applicant is being considered.

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Education:  Microbiology is a broad field of science encompassing a number of scientific disciplines or areas of science, the fields in which this science is applied, and related fields where the work is concerned with or involves microbiology. The scientific disciplines or areas of this science include bacteriology, immunology, serology, algology, mycology, parasitology, protozoology, rickettsi-ology, tissue culture, virology, and similar disciplines or areas of science. The applied fields include environmental, food, dairy, soil, industrial, public health, clinical, and agricultural microbiology, and similar areas in which microbiology is applied. Related fields include taxonomy and systematics, plant, animal, or human physiology or pathology, infectious diseases, epidemiology, ecology, and similar areas of science where the work is directly related or applies to microbiology. Except where the course work deals with a limited and specific segment of the science, where it might be limited in usefulness, most of the work, including that dealing with the development and use of microbiological methods, procedures, and techniques, is qualifying. In interpreting the substantive value of the course work, credit may be given for courses in related fields, depending on the degree to which the courses are related to micro-biological work.

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A combination of education and experience as described above.

 

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