Career Center

An exciting postdoctoral research scholar position is immediately available in the laboratory of Dr. Kelly A. Meiklejohn within the Department of Population Health and Pathobiology at North Carolina State University. The project is funded by the Army Research Office and is centered on holistically understanding stress in wild bumble bees across an urban to rural gradient, particularly in the context of landscape and land-use characteristics using a combination of genetic and biochemical approaches. The postdoctoral research scholar will be responsible for dissecting insect samples; extracting and purifying RNA from insect tissues; RNA library preparation; extracting and purifying biochemicals (crude proteins, lipids, and sugars) and quantifying with colorimetric tests; detecting