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NASA-Jet Propulsion Lab PhD Microbiology / Bioinformatics Job Opening

NASA JPL Microbiology Job. JPL Invites Application from Ph.D.Microbiology and/or bioinformatics candidates. JPL Announces job opening 2019.

Job ID: 11208

GENETIC INVENTORY OF MICROBES DURING THE SPACECRAFT ASSEMBLY PROCESS

Job Details:

At JPL and in collaboration with NASA’s Office of Planetary Protection, we are developing tools to both monitor and characterize microbes on spacecraft as a means for minimizing the transfer of Earth microorganisms to extraterrestrial environments. To date, a wide range of investigations has examined the microbial diversity of Spacecraft Assembly Cleanrooms (SAC), using both conventional and state-of-the-art molecular techniques. We seek to move these analyses to the next level and understand microbes directly associated with spacecraft. Such analyses represent a groundbreaking challenge for bioinformatic tools due to the very high cleanliness standards to which spacecraft are held.

Eligibility:

Candidates with a recent PhD in Microbiology and/or bioinformatics, as well as a strong background in metagenomics, computational biology and next-generation sequencing, are the best equipped for success in this role. The ability to apply statistical techniques to describe large data sets is also a plus. Eligible candidates will have received their PhD within the past five years since the date of their application. Postdoctoral Scholar positions are awarded for a minimum of a one-year period and may be renewed up to a maximum duration of three years.

Responsibilities

  • The selected candidate for NASA JPL Microbiology Job will support the analysis of metagenomic data by performing and creating bioinformatics analyses on an extraordinarily rare data set derived from the Mars 2020 mission hardware.
  • The postdoc will be under the mentorship of Dr. Parag Vaishampayan and will have opportunities to experience the final months of preparation for a robotic mission to Mars. Ultimately, we expect this collaborative effort will develop successful methods that pave the way for missions to assess the habitability and presence of biosignatures throughout our Solar System. The appointee will collaborate with the JPL advisor, other postdocs, scientists and engineers in JPL’s Biotechnology & Planetary Protection group (352N), resulting in publications in the open literature.

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