Charlottesville, VA30+ days ago
The work will involve the use of genetics (fly genetic tools to determine host genes that contribute to the phenotype), microbiology (growth of bacterial and fungal pathogens, performing fly infection assays), molecular tools (qPCR, PCR, gene sequencing, etc.), and insect organismal assays (fitness, cage population competition, pathogen transmission, etc.), among other approaches. The research associate will work on an NIH-funded project to determine how Wolbachia symbionts protect their fruit fly hosts from fungal pathogens.