Select Faculty Member Mark R. Brown Donald E. Champagne Daniel G. Colley Harry W. Dickerson, Jr. Roberto Docampo Stephen L. Hajduk Jessica Kissinger Patrick J. Lammie Kojo A. Mensa-Wilmot Julie M. Moore Silvia N.J. Moreno Ynes R. Ortega David S. Peterson Pejman Rohani Robert Sabatini Mike R. Strand Boris Striepen Rick L. Tarleton

NIH-funded Pre-doctoral and Post-doctoral Positions Available in Interdisciplinary Parasitology, Vector Biology, and Emerging Diseases

The Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases at the University of Georgia has positions available on a newly funded NIH T32 Training Grant for Graduate Students and Post-doctoral Fellows interested in training in a collegial, highly interactive training program in interdisciplinary areas of parasitology, vector biology, and emerging infections. CTEGD is comprised of 15 faculty members active in the areas of genetic, bioinformatics, molecular, biochemical, and cell biologic and immunologic aspects of parasites or host/parasite relationships. The research systems available for study include malaria, cryptosporidiosis, cyclosporiasis, American and African trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, and toxoplasmosis, Ichthyophthiius multifilis (Ich) of fish, parasitic insects, schistosomiasis, cysticercosis, lymphatic filariasis, ecology of infectious diseases, and culicine, anopheline and ixodid vectors.

The CTEGD Faculty members involved in this training grant are: Drs. D.E. Champagne, D.G. Colley, H.W. Dickerson, Jr., R. Docampo, J.C. Kissinger, P.J. Lammie, K.A. Mensa-Wilmot, J.M. Moore, S.N.J. Moreno, Y.R. Ortega, D.S. Peterson, P. Rohani, M.R. Strand, B. Striepen, R.L. Tarleton, and V.C.W. Tsang. For further information regarding the CTEGD faculty, their research interests, their home academic departments and the University of Georgia, please visit our website: www.ctegd.uga.edu Candidates for positions on this NIH-funded training grant must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States. Inquiries should be directed to Dr. Dan Colley, Director of CTEGD, and Professor of Microbiology at the University of Georgia: dcolley@uga.edu

Postdoctoral Positions

The competition for the single postdoctoral position on the CTEGD T32 NIH training grant occurs each March and applications are done in conjunction with one of the faculty members of the CTEGD. This means interested candidates should contact the faculty member with whom they would like to pursue postdoctoral training and then, in consultation with the faculty member, the candidate should develop an application that will be evaluated by the Training Grants Committee of the Whole. The application needs to include the following items:

• your complete CV;
• a letter from you describing your interest in CTEGD and your future plans;
• a letter from your proposed CTEGD mentor;
• 2 letters of reference.

The deadline for submission of an application is in March of each year, with the actual date being posted on our website several weeks in advance of the due date.

It is suggested that those interested in applying visit faculty webpages on CTEGDs website (www.ctegd.uga.edu), then contact the PI or PIs with whom you have the most interest in working, and pursue the possibilities based on your interests and their options.

• You must be a US citizen or permanent resident.
• In 2006, the salary for a beginning postdoc is: $36,996. This is based on the salary scale published by the NIH each year for such positions.(http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-06-026.html)
• As with all the training grant positions, this is a one year award, with the possibility of a second year based on performance and training grant contingencies.
• Since this is a NIH/NRSA training grant, there is a pay-back requirement involved, and a completed Payback Agreement (PHS Form 6031) needs to be submitted for each postdoctoral trainee. This form and a discussion of the pay-back provisions can be found at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/416/phs6031.pdf. This payback is often taken care of by continued research employment following one's training period.
• While postdoctoral scholars on the CTEGD Training Grant will receive most of their training through their specific research projects, with their mentors, being in this position does carry with it some participatory obligations to the Training Grant and CTEGD. As outlined in the original grant application, these are:
  1. Regular participation in the CTEGD Journal Club and Seminar Series;
  2. Participation in the CTEGD Research Ethics Seminar (under development) or an equivalent participation in another suitable series on responsible research practices;
  3. Auditing the Global Perspectives in Tropical and Emerging Diseases course (to be first offered this coming Maymester).
  4. Attendance at CTEGD Retreats probably once or twice a year.

At the end of the first year on the Training Grant, and prior to leaving the program, should that be at a later time, postdoctoral trainees will prepare a progress report containing a self-evaluation and present it to their mentor. Within two weeks the mentor will review it, make additional comments as needed, sign it and return it to the trainee. The trainee will then present the progress report to the Program Director for discussion. The progress report will be circulated to the Committee-of-the-whole for consideration, comments and feedback. This process is designed to assist you and the Training Grant in monitoring progress and offering assistance when deemed to be potentially useful. [Something like this is required on all NIH training programs.]

Thank you for your interest in UGA, CTEGD and our T32 Training Grant.