Researcher

Institutionen för skoglig mykologi och växtpatologi
We undertake fundamental and applied research focused on interactions involving plants, pathogenic, symbiotic and saprotrophic fungi, bacteria and archaea and their role in forest and agricultural systems.

We are looking for a highly motivated candidate, with an excellent scientific track and publication record and a postdoc experience (at least for two years) to join a project combining phenomics, genetics, and genomics to address durable immunity in wheat and tradeoffs in plant immune responses to Fusarium species complex. The work will be based at SLU Biocentrum in Uppsala (Sweden) and will be supported by the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS). The selected candidate will be involved in a project aimed at tackling important challenges related to the effectiveness and sustainability of resistance breeding, based on the study of interactions and tradeoffs between plant immune responses, and the identification of genetic traits mitigating such tradeoffs in wheat and its progenitors.

Read more about our benefits and what it is like to work at SLU at https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/work-at-slu/

Duties:
Within the project, the selected candidate will be responsible for phenotypic and genetic characterization of large biparental and GWAS populations of wheat using precision phenomics, micro-phenomics, and machine learning-aided image analysis, in collaboration with the microphenomics platform at IPK, and CREA.

Qualifications:
Candidates should have a PhD degree in Plant Pathology or Mycology, with an excellent international and lab experience in plant pathology and fungal diseases. Experience with cultivated crops and their fungal pathogens is important. Additional experience with moleucular plant-microbe interaction studies in Arabidopsis is a plus. Candidates should have expertise in population genetics, and master R language. Successful candidate must also have expertise in working with molecular techniques relevant to functional studies of plant-pathogen interactions.

Place of work:
Uppsala

Form of employment:
Permanent employment.

Extent:
80%

Starting date:
According to agreement, but the earliest 1 of January 2023.

Application:
We welcome your application no later than 2022-12-16, use the button below.

Academic union representatives:
https://internt.slu.se/en/my-employment/employee-associations/kontaktpersoner-vid-rekrytering/



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