[CDHC] Position Announcement

[morrisp at musc.edu]

Could you please place the following announcement on the CDHC listserv.  Thanks,
Pam


Position Announcement:

A position is immediately available for a postdoctoral fellow in environmental
molecular microbiology.  The focus of the research will be on a recently
awarded NSF project assessing the microbial diversity associated with Caribbean
corals.  The fellow will be responsible for assessing coral microbial diversity
using molecular approaches and should have experience with DGGE and 16S rDNA
clone libraries, as well as phylogenetic and cluster analysis.  An interest in
database management of sequence data would also be useful.  The fellow will
interface with Dr. Karen Nelson (Howard University / The Institute for Genomic
Research) who will be generating metagenomic libraries of select coral
microbial communities, and Dr. Garriet Smith (University of South
Carolina-Aiken).  The fellow will be affiliated with the Marine Biomedicine and
Environmental Sciences Center http://www.musc.edu/mbes/home.htm of the Medical
University of South Carolina, and work in the state-of-the-art Hollings Marine
Laboratory located on the Ft Johnson campus in Charleston, SC.  The position is
available for three years, with salary depending on level of experience. Please
submit a CV and list of three references (with their contact information) to: 
Dr. Pam Morris, Hollings Marine Laboratory, 331 Ft Johnson Rd., Charleston, SC;
E-mail:  morrisp at musc.edu