The Koelle lab in the Department of Biology at Duke University and the Ke lab in the Department of Mathematics at North Carolina State University have multiple openings for postdoctoral researchers between the two collaborating research groups. The post-docs will work on a DARPA-funded human influenza virus project that aims to understand the functional organization of influenza viruses at multiple scales and develop novel evolution-proof antivirals. We encourage applications from highly motivated and creative individuals who have backgrounds in one or more of the following: mathematical modeling (ideally infectious disease modeling), statistically fitting models to data, theoretical biology (including multi-level selection theory and theory on the evolution of multicellularity), population genetics, population ecology, and viral sequence analysis. The project involves modeling influenza at multiple scales of organization, including intracellular dynamics, within-host dynamics, and between-host dynamics. Opportunity will be present to interact with the experimental labs at UIUC, Rutgers, and Montana State University that belong to the multidisciplinary team. To apply, please send a brief statement of research interests, a CV, and up to 3 publications to both Katia Koelle ([email protected]) and Ruian Ke ([email protected]) by December 15, 2016 at the latest. We will review applications on a rolling basis.
