A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position and outline skills and experience that directly relate to this position.

The successful candidate will lead projects that seek to improve our understanding of the clinical, patient and microbial drivers of antibiotic resistant infections in healthcare settings.

• Applying genomic approaches to characterize transmission and evolutionary pathways leading to resistance.
• The development of analytic strategies to integrate clinical and microbiologic data to understand the patient and microbial drivers of antibiotic resistance.
• Staying up to date with current literature.
• Designing and implementing analytic workflows.
• Interfacing with clinical, analytic and laboratory collaborators.
• Disseminating research findings through primary research articles and presentations at conferences and consortia meetings.
• The candidate will work in a highly collaborative environment, and are expected to be a point person for interfacing with collaborators outside the lab.
• Being a technical and intellectual resource for trainees within the lab.
   

• Applicants must have a PhD.
• Possess strong expertise in microbial genomics, phylogenetics and clinical epidemiology of antibiotic resistance.
• 2+ years experience developing and applying genomic epidemiology methods to study antibiotic resistance in healthcare settings.

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.

Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings.  Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days. The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended.

The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.