Job Title

Post-doctoral Fellow Crop Molecular Biology and Genomics

Agency

Texas A&M Agrilife Research

Department

Institute for Advancing Health through Agriculture-Project Management

Proposed Minimum Salary

$5,000.00 monthly

Job Location

College Station, Texas

Job Type

Staff

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• In consultation with the PI, design and execute experiments in plant and microbial genomics.
• Plant growth, microbe culturing using sterile techniques.
• Identify molecular compounds that comprise phytonutrients using metabolomics, ionomics, and plant genomics.
• Perform statistical analysis of research experiments and results.
• Supervise and provide training to junior- and mid-level technical support staff, graduate students, and/or undergraduate students.
• Lead the writing of research-based publications.
• Follow appropriate laboratory safety procedures for handling, disposing of and keeping inventory of hazardous chemicals.
• Assist in coordinating lab inventory and equipment.

Preferred experience (but not required):

• Experience growing any of the following crop plants such as rice, maize, sorghum or wheat, and conducting experiments in greenhouses and growth chambers.
• Ability to prepare samples for next-generation sequencing (NGS) including extracting and purifying RNA, DNA, and possible rRNA cleanup.
• Ability to work with basic command line NGS pipelines for mapping DNA or RNA Illumina reads to a reference genome and conduct SNP analysis or differential expression analysis.
• Experience installing command line software.
• Sample preparation and experience running instruments for metabolomics or ionomics (eg. ICP-MS) or willingness to learn.

Required Education:

• A PhD degree in plant biology, biochemistry, genetics, microbiology, or other closely related fields.

All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution’s verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution’s procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Veterans/Disability Employer.