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</div><div style="font-size:26.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">ORNL Publications</div><div style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">External Publication</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">Job Posting Title</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">Postdoctoral Research Associate - Microbial ecology & biogeochemistry of soil nitrous oxide emissions / NB50595254</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">Posted Date</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">09/29/2016</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">End Posting Date</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">12/31/2016</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">Purpose</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">The Biosciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to support a new project to</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">understand the microbial contributions to pulsed nitrous oxide emissions from soils that often occur in response to</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">drought-rewetting and freeze-thaw events. The selected candidate will design and utilize controlled soil mesocosm and</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">field-based experiments to measure N2O emissions under a variety of experimental scenarios using cavity ring-down</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">spectroscopy and concurrent investigations of soil denitrifier abundance and activity through QPCR and DNA/RNA</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">sequence-based analyses of soil meta-genomes/transcriptomes.<br><br></div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">Major Duties/Responsibilities</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">- Maintain detailed and accurate records</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">- Acquire and analyze data in keeping with project scheduling</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">- Present results at conferences and other meetings</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">- Prepare project reports and peer-reviewed manuscripts</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">- Contribute in a collaborative fashion to the research of other group members and outside research teams</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">- Participate in general laboratory maintenance and safety programs and associated team research issues.</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">- Design, conduct and interpret laboratory and field based research; lead and contribute to the development of scientific</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">manuscripts and proposals.</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">Your research is facilitated by a full range of state-of-the-art equipment/facilities for microbiology, molecular biology, and</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">genomics, in a professional environment with excellent technical support.<br><br></div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">Qualifications Required</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">•</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">Ph.D. in biology, microbiology, ecology or a related scientific discipline is required.</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">•</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">Demonstrated expertise in the form of peer-reviewed publications in one or more of the following areas is required: soil</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">biogeochemistry and molecular microbial ecology.</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">Qualifications Preferred: Priority will be given with a track record of interdisciplinary, integrative, and innovative research in</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">the above areas. Familiarity with tools for gas flux analysis using, and wetlab techniques such as nucleic acid extraction,</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">QPCR, and/or sequence-based analysis of DNA and RNA for metagenomics/transcriptomic datasets is also strongly</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">preferred.<br><br></div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">Applicants cannot have received the most recent degree more than five years prior to the date of application and must</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">complete all degree requirements before starting their appointment.</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">This position will remain open for a minimum of 5 days after which it will close when a qualified candidate is identified and/or</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">hired.<br><br></div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">We accept Word(.doc, .docx), Excel(.xls, .xlsx), PowerPoint(.ppt, .pptx), Adobe(.pdf), Rich Text Format(.rtf), HTML(.htm,</div><div style="font-size:16.6667px;font-family:sans-serif">.hmtl) and text files(.txt) up to 2MB in size. 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