Professional Research Assistant: Phage-enterococcal interactions

A full-time Professional Research Assistant (PRA) position is available, starting immediately, to work in the laboratory of Dr. Breck Duerkop in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine. The Duerkop lab studies Gram-positive pathogenic enterococci, including Enterococcus faecalis and E. faecium, and the viruses that infect these bacteria known as bacteriophages. Dr. Duerkop’s group seeks to understand how bacteriophage-enterococcal interactions contribute to the pathogenesis of colonization and disease.