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expression and purification pipelines to yield high-quality, stable viral and host targets. Optimizing and evaluating biochemical small-molecule library screening assays using purified protein targets
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USDA-ARS Postdoctoral Research Opportunity: Development of Novel Vaccines for Poultry Viral Diseases
platform and the evaluation of the efficacy against Marek's disease and targeted poultry disease. You will construct the recombinant Marek's disease virus that expresses the foreign antigens. You will learn
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is typically complicated by the complex nature of food matrices and the frequent need to detect very low numbers of targeted pathogens amongst relatively high numbers of generally benign background
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structural characteristics of peanut and tree nut allergens. Learn how food processing methods may alter allergen structure, functionality, and potency. Gain experience identifying and evaluating targets
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. coli, Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes, Campylobacter). Analysis is typically complicated by the complex nature of food matrices and the frequent need to detect very low numbers of targeted pathogens
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stages of corn. Applying molecular and microbiome sequencing approaches (e.g., ITS/TEF amplicon sequencing, qPCR, metagenomics) to track fungal communities. Conducting mycotoxin quantification to link