Postdoctoral researcher Plant Biology 1228 views

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