The Evo-Epidemiology Laboratory at the University of Utah is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to join our group to study the emergence and transmission dynamics of the Valley fever fungus in the American West. The burden of Valley fever disease is expected to dramatically increase under climate change, yet we don’t currently know the current distribution of the Valley fever fungus, Coccidioides, nor how and where it is expected to spread under climate change.

We are using a variety of approaches including population genomics & phylogeography, field ecology, and species distribution modeling to ask questions about the emergence history and transmission dynamics of the fungus in order to inform projections of its future spread. The postdoctoral fellow would lead work on reconstructing the emergence history of Coccidioides across the American West and generate essential genomic datasets and tools for the Valley fever research community.

Our group. We are committed to creating an inclusive, safe research community that, in particular, invites and supports students from groups historically underrepresented in the sciences. We are committed to anti-racist, anti-imperialist, abolitionist research program and group culture. We are highly collaborative—lab members are valued as co-constructors of knowledge and part of a supportive research community. Our goal is to ask questions to directly inform public health, in particular, in low-income settings.

Qualifications:
-PhD or equivalent in a relevant field including, but not limited to: evolutionary biology, epidemiology, biology, computational biology.
-Experience writing code in R, Python, or Matlab.
-Experience with scientific writing, presentations, and dissemination of research.
-Experience working on highly collaborative teams.

Please apply here: https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/156810