The Lam lab (Biological Sciences) at Virginia Tech is seeking to hire a research associate to work on host-microbe interactions, antibiotic resistance, and antimicrobial development. Successful applicant will be expected to investigate the mechanism of antibiotic resistance, elucidate novel bacterial virulence mechanisms, study the host response to bacterial infection and to assess the efficacy of inhibitors of bacterial virulence factors in vitro and in mice models.