The Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS), Faculty of Science invites applications for a Postdoctoral researcher Plant Biology.

About the project:
  • The work is related to identification of metabolic pathways and their transcriptional regulators in wild tomato ancestors, to improve resistance in commercial tomato.
  • The aim of this project is to identify the genetic components crucial to “re-arm” cultivated tomato with effective insect-resistance.
  • As a postdoctoral researcher candidate will be involved in plant selection, biochemical assays, Illumina-sequencing, gene expression analyses, metabolite profiling and insect assays.
  • This project will be executed in close collaboration with the vegetable breeding industry.

Requirements

  • Applicant should have a PhD in plant (molecular) biology and preferentially have experience with biochemistry (metabolic analysis), molecular biology, transcriptomics and plant transformation.
  • Experience and affinity with bioinformatics and data analysis is highly advised.
  • Applicant should have excellent communication skills, be willing to supervise students and be keen to work in collaboration with the industrial partners.

Duration: temporary; three years (initial appointment will be for a period of 12 months and after satisfactory performance evaluation it can be extended).

Applications:

Applications to be submitted online and include the following:

  • CV (including contact details of two academic referees)
  • A letter of motivation
  • Combine these documents in one single attachment and also mention the months (not just years) in CV when referring to education and work experience.
  • Quote vacancy number 19-288
—————–Quick Overview————-
Organization University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Country Netherlands
Fellowship Level Postdoctoral
Subject areas plant (molecular) biology
Fellowship amount €2,709 to €3,637 gross per month
Eligibility Open to all nationalities
Deadline 5 June 2019
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