Job Description

RESEARCH SCIENTIST I, INFECTIOUS DISEASE MONITORING, Media Lab, to join Professor Kevin Esvelt and the Sculpting Evolution research group, who launched the Nucleic Acid Observatory (NAO) project to pioneer reliable, pathogen-agnostic early warning of future pandemics through untargeted metagenomic sequencing.  Responsibilities include co-leading the wet-lab research team, designing and carrying out complex metagenomic experiments, and helping to implement an active biosurveillance system; conceiving, designing, and executing experiments to evaluate and improve their biosurveillance processes; overseeing and carrying out sample and library processing as part of their ongoing monitoring efforts; and publishing key results to inform the wider biosurveillance community.

A full job description is available at https://www.media.mit.edu/about/job-opportunities/.   

REQUIRED: Ph.D. or another doctoral degree in a relevant field such as biology, biological engineering, or environmental science; at least two years of experience with standard biological assays and molecular biology techniques and with high-throughput sequencing (experience with library preparation protocols preferred); and scientific expertise in one or more fields supporting the group’s primary research interests, including metagenomics, virology, microbiology, environmental DNA, infectious disease epidemiology, wastewater monitoring, and long-read sequencing. PREFERRED: at least two years of relevant postdoc and/or industry experience; scientific expertise in two or more fields supporting the group’s primary research interests; a record of publishing in academic publications in relevant research fields; experience in research management (e.g., managing research technicians or graduate students); experience working with human wastewater and/or respiratory swab samples, or otherwise working in BSL2+ conditions.  Job #24095

This is a one-year appointment with the possibility of extension based on funding and the course of researh.

5/30/24

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