We often have postdoctoral research positions open in the Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory (BFGL) at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) in Beltsville, Maryland. Some post docs will also work closely with the Animal Improvement Programs Laboratory (AIPL), the group responsible for maintaining the US national dairy database and performing routine genetic evaluations.

Starting salary ranges from approximately $55,000 to $60,000 per year for an initial period of two years.

BFGL is equipped with the latest technology, including Illumina GAIIX, cBOT, MiSEQ, and HiSeq2000 next generation sequence analysis instruments, an Illumina iScan for SNP genotyping and gene expression profiling analyses, a Tecan robotic workstation, a CoVaris S2 ultrasonicator for DNA shearing, Nanodrop spectrophotometers, Agilent Bioanalyzers, an Invitrogen Qubit fluorometer, a Leica AS LMD laser microdissecting microscope, a fluorescence-activated cell sorter, a Li-Cor imaging system for western blots, and extensive computational infrastructure and bioinformatic assistance.  We also have various other istrumentation including microscopes, centrifuges, PCR machines, slide staining equipment, electrophoresis equipment, and cell culture incubators. See http://snipurl.com/arsbfgl for more information about BFGL and http://aipl.arsusda.gov/ and http://snipurl.com/arsaipl for information about AIPL.