荷兰瓦赫宁根大学2023年招聘博士后（分子植物育种与植物病理学）

荷兰瓦赫宁根大学2023年招聘博士后（分子植物育种与植物病理学）

瓦赫宁根大学，全称瓦赫宁根大学与研究中心（英：Wageningen University & Research），位于荷兰瓦格宁根市，是荷兰的食品谷（Food Valley）的中心。瓦赫宁根大学是一所的世界著名研究型大学，荷兰U类大学，其生态学、农业科学、生命科学、食品科学、环境科学等在全球享有极高的声誉，被公认为世界顶尖的农业和环境科学研究机构。

瓦赫宁根大学始建于1876年（时为荷兰国家农业大学），包括三个部分：瓦赫宁根大学，研究中心和劳伦斯坦学院。 最近几十年，作为瓦赫宁根大学研究中心（Wageningen UR）的一部分，它已发展为一个国际性的科研机构，下设植物科学、动物科学、环境科学、农业科技、生物工程，食品科技和社会科学等，致力于推广科研成果，以向全世界提供充足和优质的粮食作物。学校的使命：探索自然潜力，提高生活品质（英：To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life）。

Postdoc molecular plant breeding and phytopathology in onion

Wageningen University

Job description

Are you the enthusiastic post-doc with the skills and ambition to develop innovative molecular tools for the breeding of disease resistant onions? Do you want to use your passion to connect researchers and onion breeders to find answers to the challenges of the world in agriculture and healthy food? Then we might have an interesting opportunity for you in Plant Breeding, Wageningen University & Research!

Exploring natural genetic variation is key in Plant Breeding. Genomics and bio-informatics is playing an important role in the identification and exploration of variation for disease resistance in wild and onion-related Allium species. This can be through the analysis of resistance gene sequences in onion and compare them with those of two related Allium species, Allium roylei and A. fistulosum that contain resistance traits to Fusarium , Botrytis or Stemphylium , either through bio-informatic analyses of the available onion genome or the generation of new sequence data from resistance gene amplicons. These complementary approaches will generate an inventory of the absence/presence of resistance genes (or gene families) and of their allelic variation. Co-localization and association analyses of gene sequences emerging from these analyses will be performed with QTLs for resistance to Botrytis leaf blight and Fusarium basal rot that were identified in the past in an interspecific cross population obtained from a cross between A. cepa x F1( A. roylei x A. fistulosum ), in order to provide molecular markers for breeding programmes. In addition, transcript analyses of infected onion plants and (partially resistant) interspecific hybrids will be used to generate insight in resistance mechanisms.

You will work in close cooperation with colleagues in the departments of Plant Breeding and Phytopathology, and with PhD and MSc students, and breeding companies.

Requirements

We are looking for a scientist with a PhD in Bioinformatics, Plant Sciences, Plant Breeding or a related field. The successful candidate is highly motivated to develop a scientific career and can perform independent research, but values collaboration with PhD students and other researchers. The candidate is fluent in English and has good communication, scientific writing, and presentation skills.

The candidate should have several of the following qualifications:

Interest in translating biological challenges into bioinformatics solutions and vice versa.

Experience with genome assembly and annotation, haplotyping and/or Pangenomes

Extensive field and lab experience in working with onion

Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, Principal component analysis, etc.

Conditions of employment

Wageningen University & Research offers excellent terms of employment. A few highlights from our Collective Labour Agreement include:

working hours that can be discussed and arranged so that they allow for the best possible work-life balance;

the option to accrue additional compensation hours by working more, up to 40 hours per week;

sabbatical leave, study leave, and partially paid parental leave;

there is a strong focus on vitality and you can make use of the sports facilities available on campus for a small fee;

a fixed December bonus of 4%;

excellent pension scheme.

In addition to these first-rate employee benefits, you will of course receive a good salary. We offer, depending on your experience, a competitive gross salary of between 欧元3821 and 欧元5479 for a full-time working week of 36 hours, in accordance with the CLA Wageningen Research (scale 10-11) for a period of 3 years.

Wageningen University & Research encourages internal advancement opportunities and mobility with an internal recruitment policy. There are plenty of options for personal initiative in a learning environment, and we provide excellent training opportunities. We are offering a multi-faceted position in an international environment with a pleasant and open working atmosphere.

Employer Wageningen University & Research

Wageningen University & Research The mission of Wageningen University & Research is "To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life". Under the banner Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen University and the specialised research institutes of the Wageningen Research Foundation have joined forces in contributing to finding solutions to important questions in the domain of healthy food and living environment. With its roughly 30 branches, 7,200 employees (6,400 fte) and 13,200 students and over 150.000 participants to WUR's Life Long Learning, Wageningen University & Research is one of the leading organisations in its domain. The unique Wageningen approach lies in its integrated approach to issues and the collaboration between different disciplines.

Plant Breeding is a merged unit of Wageningen Research and Wageningen University with around 200 people including MSc and PhD students and guest workers. It is a highly international group with more than 30 nationalities organised in ten research groups. We conduct fundamental, strategic and applied research and provide teaching at all educational (BSc, MSc and PhD) levels. Our research focusses on the dissemination of the genetic basis of traits which are relevant in order to achieve a sustainable agri- and horticulture. We conduct this research often together or in partnership with breeding companies, local, regional and state governments.

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We will recruit for the vacancy ourselves, so no employment agencies please. However, sharing in your network is appreciated.

Additional information

Do you want more information? For more information about this position, please contact dr. Olga Scholten, senior scientist and programme manager Plant Breeding, telephone +31-317-480871 or by e-mail olga.scholten@wur.nl or dr. Jan van Kan, associate professor Laboratory of Phytopathology, telephone +31-317-483126 or by e-mail jan.vankan@wur.nl, or dr. René Smulders, business unit manager Plant Breeding, telephone +31-317-480840 or email rene.smulders@wur.nl

For more information about the procedure, please contact: vacaturemeldingen.psg@wur.nl

Do you want to apply? You can apply directly using the apply button on the vacancy page on our website which will allow us to process your personal information with your approval.

This vacancy will be listed up to and including May 1, 2023.