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Texas A&M Agrilife Research
College Station, TX
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Job Title
Assistant Research Scientist
Agency
Texas A&M Agrilife Research
Department
Animal Science
Proposed Minimum Salary
Commensurate
Job Location
College Station, Texas
Job Type
Staff
Job Description
Texas A&M AgriLife is comprised of the following Texas A&M University System members:
As the nation’s largest most comprehensive agriculture program, Texas A&M AgriLife brings together a college and four state agencies focused on agriculture and life sciences within The Texas A&M University System. With over 5,000 employees and a presence in every county across the state, Texas A&M AgriLife is uniquely positioned to improve lives, environments and the Texas economy through education, research, extension and service.
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Position Information
This Assistant Research Scientist position supports the Dass Microbial Ecology Laboratory’s Food Safety and Defense and Farm-to-Plate Antimicrobial Resistance research pillars. The incumbent will lead the meta-omics and biofilm-ecology, which characterizes multi-species biofilm communities recovered from beef- and pork-processing environments and determines how these communities influence pathogen persistence, sanitizer tolerance, and antimicrobial resistance.
The work integrates shotgun metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, genome-scale metabolic modeling, and culture-based synthetic-community experiments, and is conducted in long-standing collaboration with the USDA-ARS U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC). The incumbent will develop analysis pipelines and biofilm model systems for this workstream, coordinate with federal collaborators, mentor graduate students, and contribute to publications, technical reports, and grant proposals.
Salary: Compensation is commensurate with the candidate’s qualifications.
Your employment at Texas A&M AgriLife may require nonimmigrant sponsorship. A Presidential proclamation issued on September 19, 2025, imposes a $100,000 fee on new H-1B petitions filed after September 21, 2025. Texas A&M AgriLife will NOT pay this fee. If the fee is imposed on your petition, this offer of employment will be revoked. If actions taken during your employment result in the imposition of this fee, your employment will be terminated.
To the extent that this statement conflicts with any applicable System or member Policy, Regulation, or Rule, this statement will control. We recommend that you consult with your private immigration counsel at your own expense regarding potential implications.
In addition, on January 27, 2026, Texas Governor Abbott issued a moratorium on the filing of any new H-1B unless approved by the Texas Workforce Commission. Accordingly, if you will now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status this moratorium may affect our ability to employ you should you be selected as the final candidate.
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