About this role
Job Title Postdoctoral Research Associate
Agency Texas A&M Agrilife Research
Department Horticultural Sciences
Proposed Minimum Salary Commensurate
Job Location College Station, Texas
Job Type Staff
Job Description About Texas A&M AgriLife Texas A&M AgriLife is comprised of the following Texas A&M University System members:
• Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
• Texas A&M AgriLife Research
• College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University
• Texas A&M Forest Service
• Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory
As the nation’s largest most comprehensive agriculture program, Texas A&M AgriLife brings together a college and four state agencies focused on agriculture and life sciences within The Texas A&M University System. With over 5,000 employees and a presence in every county across the state, Texas A&M AgriLife is uniquely positioned to improve lives, environments and the Texas economy through education, research, extension and service.
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Position Information Darwish Research Laboratory at Texas A&M AgriLife Research seeks a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Associate to play a leading role in research development, research articles, and proposal writing in transcriptome and metabolomics research. The successful candidate will contribute significantly to expanding the laboratory's extramural funding portfolio through the preparation of competitive grant applications while conducting innovative research in transcriptomics, metabolomics, natural products chemistry, flavor science, and bioactive compound discovery.
Responsibilities:
• Identifies funding opportunities and develops strategic research initiatives aligned with sponsor priorities.
• Leads the preparation and submission of competitive proposals to federal agencies such as USDA, NIH, NSF, and DOE, as well as state agencies, commodity boards, foundations, and industry sponsors.
• Writes proposal narratives, specific aims, research strategies, budgets, milestones, progress reports, and other sponsor-required documents; coordinates multidisciplinary proposal teams and facilitates collaborations among faculty, industry partners, and stakeholders; and contributes to the development of large-scale interdisciplinary funding initiatives.
• Designs and conducts independent and collaborative genomics and metabolomics projects using advanced analytical platforms including LC-MS/MS, GC-MS, UHPLC-MS, HRMS, and HS-SPME-GC-MS.
• Performs targeted and untargeted metabolite profiling.
• Identifies and characterizes metabolites, volatile organic compounds, and bioactive compounds from plant, food, microbial, and human samples; develops and optimizes analytical methods; analyzes complex datasets using metabolomics and statistical software tools.
• Disseminates research findings through peer-reviewed publications and presentations at national and international scientific conferences.
• Mentors graduate and undergraduate students, assists with laboratory management and instrumentation oversight, fosters collaborations within Texas A&M University and with external partners, and supports the long-term growth of a nationally recognized metabolomics research program.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
• Ph.D.
• Ability to multi-task and work cooperatively with others.
What You Need to Know Salary: Compensation for this position is commensurate based on the selected candidate’s qualifications.
Why Work at Texas A&M AgriLife? When you choose to work for Texas A&M AgriLife, you become part of an organization that is an established leader in agriculture and life sciences with a wide range of capabilities to meet the needs of our statewide, national, and international constituents.
In addition, Texas A&M AgriLife offers a comprehensive benefit package including the following:
• Health, dental, vision, life and long-term disability insurance with Texas A&M AgriLife contributing to employee health and basic life premiums
• 12-15 days of annual paid holidays
• Up to eight hours of paid sick leave and at least eight hours of paid vacation each month
• Automatic enrollment in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas
• Employee Wellness Initiative for Texas A&M AgriLife
This position offers a competitive salary and benefits package and provides outstanding opportunities for professional development in grantsmanship, leadership, multidisciplinary research, and advanced metabolomics.
Applicant Instructions Applications received by Texas A&M AgriLife must either have all job application data entered or a resume attached. Failure to provide all job application data or a complete resume could result in an invalid submission and a rejected application. We encourage all applicants to upload a resume or use a LinkedIn profile to prepopulate the online application.
Required Documents CV/ Resume Cover letter List of references
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Equal Opportunity/Veterans/Disability Employer.