Senior Research Scientist/Research Scientist in Microbial Genomics and Antimicrobial Resistance

Interested in working with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and making an impact on controlling it globally?

The National Food Institute (DTU Food) seeks qualified candidates for a senior scientist/research scientist (permanent position) to work in the area of antimicrobial resistance and microbial genomics and antimicrobial resistance. The candidate will be affiliated with the Genomic Epidemiology Research Group, which studies medically relevant and foodborne microorganisms with a specific focus on AMR. The research group is EU and WHO reference laboratory for antimicrobial resistance, and combines expertise in conventional and molecular microbiology with epidemiology and bioinformatics. The DTU Food group is together with DTU Systems Biology and several global partners developing a global real-time system for surveillance and diagnostics of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance (www.genomicepidemiology.org, www.globalmicrobialidentifier.org).

Responsibilities and tasks
The successful candidate will integrate closely with other scientists with a background in molecular and conventional microbiology as well as epidemiology, NGS sequencing, bioinformatics and statistical modelling. The candidate will take part in handling the institute’s responsibilities as EURL for antimicrobial resistance within the EU, and will also provide scientific advice to the European Commission and to member states on matters relating to antimicrobial resistance.

The candidate will be developing, testing and analyzing different methodologies for quantification of resistance genes from different NGS sequencing data including meta-genomic sequences.

The candidate will also take part in handling the Institute’s responsibilities as WHO Collaborating Centre for antimicrobial resistance among foodborne pathogens. Through this work the research group is involved with global Salmonella surveillance (GFN) which includes training courses, EQAS and the Country Databank and in the GMI (Global Microbial Identifier Initiative) involved in promoting global surveillance of pathogens.

The work place will be DTU-Food at the main campus of DTU in Lyngby, Denmark.

Application deadline: 24 August 2015

Read more and apply here.