Postdoctoral Research Fellow focusing on fish vaccination
The Institute of Aquaculture, School of Natural Sciences is offering a post-doctoral research fellow (PDRF) post to work with Dr Mags Crumlish on a project focussed on fish vaccination.
The project is part of the InnoVet-AMR funded catfish project which focuses its activities on vaccination as a method to reduce antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance in Asian catfish farming systems. This project will help support the aquaculture development targets in delivering vaccination strategies and programmes for farmed Asian catfish to reduce the existing overreliance on antibiotics. This is a multidisciplinary project, including specialists in aquaculture, fish health, vaccination, human behavioural economics and psychology.
Vietnam is one of the world’s largest producers of Asian catfish species, Pangasianodon hypophthalmus. Bacterial infections continue to cause significant disease problems in these farming systems, which has supported the rapid growth of antimicrobial resistance. There is a critical need to develop efficacious vaccines and vaccination programmes to reduce AMR.
The overall research aims for the PDRF within this project are to characterise a large collection of bacterial strains using WGS and proteomic profiling to support development of the novel vaccine, identify immunological markers that correlate with protection and contribute towards production of antibiotic testing standards for Asian aquaculture. The post will be within the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling with opportunity to conduct research in Vietnam.
Description of Duties
- Coordinating the maintenance and curation of bacterial culture collection.
- Processing of samples for molecular and biochemical analyses including rt-QPCR and ELISA.
- Using bioinformatics pipelines to support large-scale genomics and proteomic profiling data that will include WGS and MALDI-TOF MS.
- Developing and testing different statistical methods and classification algorithms with the omics-data generated on bacteria isolates.
- Coordinating research trials with all research partners.
- Preparing and delivering clear, concise and accurate reports.
- Assist in the supervision of PGR research projects.
- Other duties as necessary.
More details
A full job description and details of how to apply are available on the University of Stirling's jobs website.