Research engineer

The Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology was founded in the late 1970s - when the College of Forestry moved to Umeå. The number of employees has since grown steadily is now around 100, including postdoctoral researchers and postgraduate students. In the late 1990s it was decided to join with the Department of Plant Physiology at Umeå University to form a research center, Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC). The Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology moved into the premises adjacent to the partner department and together have developed a close and successful collaboration on research issues, technology platforms, and training of master's and doctoral level students. The international element within UPSC is large, with over 40 nationalities represented.

The department conducts introductory and advanced training in plant physiology, ecophysiology, plant molecular biology, forest genetics and forest biotechnology within the Forestry program and at the master level.

The department offers postgraduate studies in biology, specializing in plant physiology, ecophysiology, plant molecular biology and forest genetics. Postgraduate courses are generally held in cooperation with the Department of Plant Physiology.
For more information about the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology and UPSC visit www.upsc.se.

Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology
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Duties:
The candidate will participate in research to increase knowledge of the molecular control of abiotic stress, as well as the development of genomic tools to assess tolerance during seedling establishment and long-term forest health. The work involves physiological and image data collection in greenhouse, sampling of material and its preparation for further omic analysis (transcriptomic and metabolomic). The Candidate will also conduct statistical analysis and bioinformatics as well as contributing to manuscript writing. 

Qualifications:
The applicant must have a PhD in plant breeding and/or genetics. Knowledge in population and quantitative genetics, good skills in bioinformatics and statistics and good written and spoken English abilities are required.

Place of work:
Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology (SLU), Umeå, Sweden 

Form of employment:
Fixed term employment of 12 months.

Extent:
100%

Starting date:
2024-03-01 or according to agreement.

Application:
We welcome your application no later than 2023-11-09, please use the button below.

Academic union representatives:
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