JOB DESCRIPTION:

The College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Comparative, Diagnostic, and Population Medicine at the University of Florida (UF) invites applications for a full-time non-tenure-track position in Wildlife Disease Molecular Diagnostics at the level of Research Assistant Professor. The position entails 85% clinical effort, which includes clinical diagnostic activities in the molecular diagnostic services of the Zoological Medicine Diagnostic laboratory together with didactic and clinical instruction, 10% research effort, which can involve self-directed and/or collaborative research enterprises, and 5% service, which can be met by professional, departmental and university appointments. This is a time-limited position funded by the Zoo Med. Diagnostic Laboratory; continuation of this position is dependent on clinical diagnostic income in the laboratory.
Opportunities exist to explore or develop special interests in pathology that provide collaborations with other clinical specialties in the hospital. The University of Florida has a student body of over 49,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students, including over 14,500 minority students, and 6,000 international students, and its College of Veterinary Medicine is ranked #9 by US News & World Report.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Minimum requirements include a PhD in wildlife diseases or a related discipline. The successful candidate must have experience in molecular diagnostic testing of nondomestic species with a focus on reptiles. Skills with test design and validation for molecular diagnostics of infectious diseases, including both PCR-based and next generation sequencing, as well as laboratory diagnostic sample database design and management are required.

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