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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Phytoplankton Biology Research Officer</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Institute for Marine Biosciences (IMB)</FONT><B></B>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The NRC Institute for Marine Biosciences is respected worldwide for its research and technology development in marine biosciences, including state-of-the-art analytical chemistry of biological molecules. IMB features a broad and integrated suite of marine bioscience and biotechnology laboratories and an aquaculture research station. IMB is an integrated systems biology institute with the capability to investigate research questions from the level of the genome to the whole organism. IMB's research programs focus primarily on the areas of aquaculture, natural toxins and mass spectrometry-proteomics. IMB is also home to the Canadian Bioinformatics Resource, a distributed bioinformatics computing environment and help desk available to biologists across Canada. The Institute also has a substantial suite of state-of-the-art advanced instrumentation in mass spectrometry-proteomics, high-throughput DNA sequencing, NMR and microscopy. The Aquaculture Research Station is well equipped for live-animal work on fish and shellfish, including production of live and formulated feeds.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The Phytoplankton Biology Research Officer will support the mission of NRC and the Institute for Marine Biosciences by developing and leading an original independent research program of international scientific caliber in phytoplankton ecology/biology, with a primary focus on harmful marine microalgae.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The incumbent must be prepared to work on a variety of toxic and non-toxic phytoplankton, with a primary focus on harmful marine algae, and to contribute their expertise to studies of microalgal nutritional value and to solving harmful algal incidents as appropriate. The incumbent will be expected to interact with other IMB researchers in the toxin team which includes the following core areas: harmful algal blooms, vectors of toxins, separation science and structural characterization of toxins, assay and analysis methods, toxin incident problem-solving and certified reference materials. The incumbent will also be expected to interact with other IMB research teams, as well as with the national and international community. The incumbent will represent NRC on local, national and international committees related to the above research as appropriate.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">For further information including complete screening and assessment criteria and the application process please visit the complete poster in the career section of the NRC website</FONT><B> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">(<U></U></FONT><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca <<A HREF="http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca" TARGET="_blank">http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca</A>></FONT></U><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">).</FONT></B></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Closing date: Please refer to the NRC website - Reference number 63-03-19 </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">We thank all those who apply and advise that only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.</FONT>
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