Postdoctoral Associate

**Job Description**
This postdoctoral position focuses on a highly interdisciplinary project utilizing comparative venomics and microbiomics to investigate the evolution of venom complexity in social and subsocial spiders. The research will employ techniques such as HPLC, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and microbiomics. The role is funded by a collaborative National Science Foundation Grant led by Nick Keiser (University of Florida) and Tim Colston (University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez) and offers opportunities for fieldwork in Namibia and South Africa, mentorship of students, course development, and international collaboration.

**Skills & Abilities**
• Experience with genomics, transcriptomics, and bioinformatics, or motivation to acquire these skills quickly
• A track record of research productivity in both independent and collaborative projects
• Experience in invertebrate dissection
• Molecular wet-lab skills
• Bioinformatic analyses of genomic and metagenomic data

**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Ecology
• Evolution
• Related fields

**Experience**
Other:
• A track record of research productivity in both independent and collaborative projects

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