Post Doctoral Fellow - Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Department
icipe is an independent, intergovernmental organization funded by government aid agencies, UN organisations and private foundations to carry out research and training in the environmentally sound and sustainable management of arthropods for improving health and agricultural productivity in Africa. icipe has approximately 300 staff to support its research and capacity building programmes, located at various sites in Kenya, and other locations in Africa, including Ethiopia and Sudan.
icipe seeks to recruit a young and highly motivated Post Doctoral Fellow to work in its Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Department and be part of the new collaborative project entitled “An Integrated Response System For Emerging Infectious Diseases in East Africa (AVID)” (http://avid.icipe.org; http://sites.google.com/site/arbovirusdynamicsprojectsite). AVID aims to bring current molecular and epidemiological approaches to the detection of pathogens – both known and unknown in field samples. One of icipe’s critical roles in this project is to develop a platform of wet-lab technologies enabling high-throughput screening and detection of known and unknown arthropod transmitted viruses (arboviruses). Read more
