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Dear All, Please find a job description attached. Best wishes, Simon ** UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Research Associate In Viral Phylodynamics Start date: Immediately Limit of Tenure: 3 years This post is funded by an MRC Methodology Research Programme grant, entitled 'Combining epidemiological and phylogenetic models of infectious disease dynamics'. The successful applicant will develop state-of-the-art statistical models...

...ion is funded by a National Institutes of Health NIAID award to discover, characterize, and model the risk of new potential zoonoses from bats. The primary focus of the Research Fellow will be to model the risk of spillover, patterns of infection, co-phylogenetic and phylogenetic relationships, and phylodynamics of emerging zoonotic diseases from bats. Research will be focused on viruses and applying phylogenetic and comparative analyses to existing models and data, including a large number of newly discovered viruses. The position may involve some fieldwork with bats or other mammals internationally, b...