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BanfieldBio is currently looking for a vector biologist to join us as an Industrial Postdoctoral Fellow for a 3-year term, with funding already in place for a highly competitive stipend. Over the last 10 years, our company has received more NIH Small Business grants to develop novel vector control technologies health than any other company in the US.  We turn concepts into products to benefit global health, and we need to expand our team. 

We are currently engaged in research projects on ticks, kissing bugs, flies, black flies and mosquitoes. If you are an ambitious, practically-oriented, expert experimentalist, who is brimming with ideas, admires and respects the capacity of insects and other arthropods to compete with mankind, is a bit of a technology nerd and are seeking an unconventional outlet for your innovative nature, then this Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowship may fill your requirements. 

You will work in the laboratory and the field as part of BanfieldBio’s scientific team, as well as with external collaborators. You will be mentored in your career development by two experienced researchers who have an established track record of grantsmanship, commercialization and publication.  A permanent position at the completion of the Fellowship may also be offered if it suits you and the Company.

 Specifically, the tasks in which you may be engaged include the following.

• Contribute to the design and testing of new pest control devices.
• Participate in devising and evaluating new methods for the application of pesticides, including conventional chemicals, but with a preference for insect growth regulators, semiochemicals, microbials and physical agents.
• Design and conduct laboratory and field experiments to establish proof of concept of new technology, as well as to determine the efficacy of novel techniques and products at various stages of development, including statistical analysis and presentation of experimental data.
• Take a leadership role in selected projects and participate as a productive member of other project teams.
• Coordinate experimental investigations being conducted by external collaborators.
• Attend and contribute constructively to regular meetings within the company.
• Write reports for internal use and manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed and lay journals.
• Present results and information at scientific, professional and industrial meetings.
• Participate in writing and submission of patent applications.
• Propose and write research grant proposals and contribute to proposals developed by others in the company.

This position requires a recent Ph.D. in biological science, with a strong preference for studies in medical and veterinary entomology, vector biology, ecology and pest management.

 We may be unable to hire candidates not already authorized to work in the US.  Our hopes to hire any of the highly qualified candidates from other counties have been stymied by the current dysfunctional immigration policies.

Canadian and Mexican candidates who meet these job requirements are qualified to work in the US under a TN Visa and may accept this position, but may not be able to accept a permanent position without further authorizations.