Postdoc position

The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) is a world-class international university in the life and environmental sciences, ranked in international surveys among the foremost universities in the world in its field. SLU is a research-intensive university that also offers a broad range of unique education programmes in fields such as veterinary medicine, forestry, environmental economics and landscape architecture.

SLU has just over 3,000 employees and 4,000 students, a turnover of just over SEK 3 billion, and operations throughout Sweden, with campuses at Alnarp, Skara, Umeå, Uppsala and elsewhere. The university has invested heavily in modern, attractive campus environments for research and education.



Postdoc position in Phyllosphere microbiology, specifically adhesion of human pathogens on leaves and to mixed leaf biofilms


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Arbetsuppgifter: You are expected to conduct research on attachment mechanism and biofilms on the leaf surface of leafy vegetables and on the dynamics of shigatoxin producing E. coli in mixed biofilms. You will be collaborating with researchers and PhD students working human pathogens on horticultural plants and produce at SLU Alnarp and within the recently approved Formas project ?Safe Salad?.
We are looking for a postdoc who will work with colonization of human pathogens on leafy vegetables. We will investigate the fate of shigatoxin producing E. coli, causing EHEC infections, in the horticultural farm-to-fork chain, and highlight interactions between cropping and processing environment, leaf microflora and the prevalence of EHEC. These are used as a basis for risk assessment and identification of risk factors before harvest and of vegetables at risk. Studies on adhesion on the leaf via existing biofilms and the significance of the leaf microflora for disease development will be the basis for intervention studies in different steps of the production network.