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Clinical Research Nurse Manager
The Research Nurse Coordinator/Manager, operating under the direction of the Clinical Program Director, is responsible for the planning, organizing, directing, and overseeing of all daily operations at the IHA Research Clinic at Borlaug, located in College Station. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the execution of clinical research protocols for TAMU Principal Investigators in a safe and efficient manner. Assists with the selection, enrollment, education, testing, data entry, and monitoring of research participants.
Research Associate I
The Research Specialist I is responsible for coordinating research activities of the Human Behavior Laboratory (HBL) related to food and responsive agriculture. Duties include providing direct support for economic experiments, including programming of experiments, and integrating them into the hardware and software applications, maintenance of hardware equipment and software, coordinating and overseeing data collection, providing technical expertise and advice to researchers, and overseeing day-to-day research operations.
Research Specialist
We are seeking a Research Specialist to contribute to research focused on improving the nutritional quality of crops through plant genetics, genomics, metabolomics, ionomics, biofortification, and functional genetics. The Research Specialist will collaborate with USDA and IHA research teams to develop bioinformatics pipelines, methods, and analyses for a variety of multi-omics projects. Additional responsibilities may include supporting research involving animal models, as well as human metabolomics, transcriptomics and statistical studies.
Postdoctoral Research Associate – Metabolomics, Chemistry, Analysis
We are seeking a candidate with expertise in targeted and untargeted metabolomics, analytical chemistry, and statistical analysis. The postdoctoral fellow will focus areas that improve nutritional qualities in crops using plant genetics, genomics, metabolomics, ionomics, biofortification and functional genetics studies.
Postdoctoral Research Associate – Chronic Disease, Plant Genetics, Biofortification
We are seeking highly motivated postdoctoral fellows to join our dynamic team with broad focus areas in prevention of diet-related chronic diseases, plant genetics & biofortification and mechanistic studies in nutrition-health associations. The candidates will collaborate with USDA-ARS scientists at the Responsive Agricultural Food Systems Research Unit (RAFSRU) co-housed at the Texas A&M AgriLife, IHA. Our research environment is guided by collaboration, mentorship, and a supportive culture that encourages personal and professional growth.
Student Assistant
We’re looking for a student worker to help with office and facility support at Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture. This is a great chance to gain hands-on experience and be part of a team.
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