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🥝 Laboratory Research Assistant

Colorado State University | Fort Collins, United States | Posted June 20, 2026

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**Job Description**

**Position Summary**

**2. Full Consideration Date:**

2.28.26

**3. Signing Bonus:**

None

**4. Brief Work Unit Description or link to department website.**

The successful candidate will support research advancing the sustainability, productivity, and environmental resilience of beef cattle systems through laboratory-based experimentation, coordination, and technical assistance. This position emphasizes the practical application of science to evaluate strategies that reduce enteric methane emissions and improve rumen fermentation efficiency. The primary responsibility of this role is to assist in an applied in vitro fermentation research project designed to test the effects of different feed additives on methane production under controlled laboratory conditions. The objective of the study is to quantify methane (CH₄) output and characterize rumen fermentation profiles—including total gas production, volatil...

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