http://www.healthcareer.net.au/
CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in RNA Technologies for Animal Health
CSIRO acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live and work on across Australia. We acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture and pay our respects to their Elders past and present. View our vision towards reconciliation
CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system.
Despite the success of veterinary vaccines, globalisation has dramatically increased risks of disease outbreaks. For example, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has recently spread into Indonesia after more than 30 years of freedom posing a risk to the Australian livestock industry with impacts of up to $80 billion over a 10-year period. In addition, new lineages of FMD are regularly detected in endemic areas necessitating updated vaccines. African swine fever and lumpy skin disease have spread globally and is now present in our neighbouring countries. The solution to current biosecurity threats requires a rapid, agile, and transformative response which traditional approaches fail to provide. There is a desperate need for innovative, state-of-the-art, quick to manufacture platforms for veterinary vaccines to help protect domestic and export markets and future-proof Australia from biosecurity ‘megashocks’.
The CERC Fellow will be leading the novel application of mRNA vaccines for an important emergency animal disease that includes developing a pipeline with in silico approaches to antigen design, establish in vitro testing platforms and finally validating the approach in an animal model. The project involves three CSIRO business units; Health and Biosecurity, Australian Animal Health Laboratory and CSIRO-Manufacturing. The CERC Fellow will therefore be exposed to experts with a diverse range of knowledge and expertise including virology, molecular biology, bioinformatics, infectious disease diagnosis and nanotechnology.
Location: Geelong, Victoria
Salary: AU$92k - AU$101k plus up to 15.4% superannuation
Tenure: Specified term of 3 years
Reference: 90896
For full details about this role please view the Position Description
Applications for this position are open to Australian/New Zealand Citizens, Australian Permanent Residents and Australian Temporary Residents currently residing in Australia. Appointment to this role is subject to provision of a national police check and may be subject to other security/medical/character requirements.
We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work.
We are working hard to recruit people representing the diversity across our society, and ensure that all our people feel supported to do their best work and feel empowered to let their ideas flourish.
At CSIRO Australia's national science agency, we solve the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. We put the safety and wellbeing of our people above all else and earn trust everywhere because we only deal in facts. We collaborate widely and generously and deliver solutions with real impact.
Join us and start creating tomorrow today!
Please apply on-line and provide a cover letter and CV that best demonstrate your motivation and ability to meet the requirements of this role.
31 January 2023, 11:00pm AEDT