- Agency
- USDA - Agricultural Research Service
- Location
- Kerrville, TX
- Job Category
- Full Time Positions
- Salary
- $77,488 to $119,787 per year
- Last Date to Apply
- July 2, 2021
- Website
- https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/603179700
- Description
- Summary This position is located in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Livestock Arthropod Pests Research Unit, Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory, located in Kerrville, TX. The unit's mission is to provide technology for eradicating or controlling ticks and blood-feeding flies of veterinary and medical importance. Responsibilities - Conducts research on the genomics and molecular biology of these arthropods, including the development of effective vaccines for controlling ticks and flies impacting livestock. -Evaluates the efficacy of novel candidate anti-tick and fly vaccine antigens derived from gene databases and subsequent vaccines for use in cattle and wildlife. -Devises approaches to annotate and mine sequence data to identify novel vaccine antigens and targets for alternative control technologies. -Reports results in annual reports, publishing results in peer-reviewed literature Represents the research group at workshops/conferences -Provides technical expertise to scientists in and outside the U.S. on tick genomics and proteomics.
- Qualifications
- Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement including specialized experience and/or education, as defined below. Basic Requirements: Applicants must meet the basic requirements for the series listed below in addition to the minimum qualifications. Degree: genetics; or one of the basic biological sciences that included at least 9 semester hours in genetics. Graduate Education: Genetics, or a curriculum or pattern of training that placed major emphasis on genetics. Graduate study in related fields such as agronomy, horticulture, animal, dairy, or poultry husbandry, entomology, microbiology, plant pathology, chemistry, molecular and cellular biology, and physiology that involved cross-training in genetics is qualifying, provided it placed sufficient emphasis on genetics. Evaluation of Education: Most students in the field take graduate work because specific training in genetics may be limited at the undergraduate level. Under these circumstances, it may be necessary to evaluate undergraduate course work in genetics in one of two ways, as described below, to determine whether or not it is qualifying. 1.) Courses dealing with genetics, some phase of genetics, or specific techniques that are applied in genetics work are acceptable. This includes courses in genetics, plant or animal genetics, molecular and cellular biology, mathematics and statistics (as they apply to genetics), population dynamics, and certain techniques such as those dealing with irradiation. 2.) Course work consisting of an appropriate combination of basic courses in genetics and cytology or statistics are also acceptable.
- Job Number
- 279
- Contact Person
- Jensen Dobbins
- Contact eMail
- jensen.dobbins@usda.gov