Bacterial pathogen survival in karstic groundwater (SENSAAS Project)

JOB TITLE

Post-Doc – Bacterial pathogen survival in karstic groundwater (SENSAAS Project)

EMPLOYER

UBFC – 32 avenue de l’Observatoire – 25000 BESANCON

LOCATION

Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, UFR Sciences et Techniques
CNRS UMR 6249 Chrono-Environnement
16 route de Gray, F-25 030 Besançon Cedex, France

CONTRACT DURATION

15 months

DEADLINE APPLICATION

30/04/2021

STARTING JOB

01/09/2021

JOB DESCRIPTION

The postdoctoral work will be part of SENSAAS (SENSors and Analyses for AquiferS) transdisciplinary research consortium 2021-2024. This large collaborative project at the regional level involves several partner laboratories and propose to develop innovative sensors and to strengthen the analytical capacities of UBFC platforms for micropollutants analysis (microplastics, organic matter, antibiotics, biocides and trace metals) in groundwater.

The post-doctoral offer concerns the fisrt part of the project and will focus on the link between the quantification of antibiotic resistant bacteria (BRA) and the dosage of most consumed antibiotics (ATB) in karstic groundwater. More particularly, he/she will determine whether different clones of multi-drug resistant pathogens (E. coli, K. pneumoniae, P. aeruginosa) have similar survival characteristics in a network of karstic groundwater and which factors (antibiotics, abiotic factors, metal trace elements) influence this survival.

Experimental applications will be held on Jurassic Karst and AUVERWATCH observation systems (Research Infrastructure OZCAR, RZA, eLTER).
Keywords: Antibiotic resistant bacteria, antibiotics, groundwater Job hours : Full time

SUPERVISORS

BERTRAND Xavier (xavier.bertrand@univ-fcomte.fr)
CELLE-JEANTON Hélène (helene.jeanton@univ-fcomte.fr)

QUALIFICATIONS

PhD

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Experience and knowledge in bacteriology and resistance to antimicrobials. Skill in data interpretation statistics and manuscript writing are required

APPLICATION

Please send the following documents (all in one PDF file) by e-mail xavier.bertrand@univ-fcomte.fr :
1) For EU candidates: Copy of your national ID card or of your passport page where your photo is printed.
For non-EU candidates: Copy of your passport page where your photo is printed.2) Curriculum Vitae (may include hyperlinks to your ResearchID, Research Gate Google Scholar accounts).3) Detailed list of publications (may include hyperlinks to DOI of publications).

4) Letter of motivation relatively to the position (Cover Letter) in which applicants describe themselves and their contributions to previous research projects (maximum 2 pages)

5) Copy of your PhD degree if already available.

6) Coordinates of reference persons (maximum 3, at least your master thesis supervisor):
Title, Name, organization, e-mail.

If you have questions regarding the application, please contact the supervisors.