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Research Topic Description, including Problem Statement:

The exposome may be described as a comprehensive measure of all environmental exposures an individual experiences in a lifetime and how those exposures change the individual’s biology. Exposome components can be diverse and can include profile changes to antibodies, metabolites, protein/peptide adducts, RNAs, epigenetics, small molecules, lipids, and others.Understanding how the exposome changes in response to certain insults such as pathogens, toxins, and other chemicals could provide new avenues for assessment of biological threat processes, building early exposure health warnings, and tracking sources of threat agents. In order to leverage the considerable information content carried by our exposomes, new technologies, approaches, and data analysis methods are required. The intent of this call is to identify postdoctoral researchers who are researching how to best interrogate the exposome, isolating what specific features and biomarkers associate most strongly and provide viable and longitudinal tracing for distinct threat types, or developing predictive modeling approaches using exposome signature data.

Example Approaches:

Mass spectroscopy, High-content cellular microscopy, Nucleic acid barcoding plus sequencing, Machine learning pipelines, genomics, transcriptomics, multi-omics

Relevance to the Intelligence Community:

The ability to track and identify the emergence of threat agents continues to be a significant challenge. The human exposome provides a potential signature source for improved tracking of these agents and could be leveraged to improve health monitoring of high-risk individuals and to improve global biosurveillance efforts.

Key Words: Exposome, Biomarkers, Environmental, Exposure, Immune, Metabolomics, Panomics, Epigenetics, Signatures

Postdoc Eligibility

• U.S. citizens only
• Ph.D. in a relevant field must be completed before beginning the appointment and within five years of the application deadline
• Proposal must be associated with an accredited U.S. university, college, or U.S. government laboratory
• Eligible candidates may only receive one award from the IC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program

Research Advisor Eligibility

• Must be an employee of an accredited U.S. university, college or U.S. government laboratory
• Are not required to be U.S. citizens

• Citizenship: U.S. Citizen Only
• Degree: Doctoral Degree.
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