Junior specialist
The Junior Specialist will work closely with postdoc and graduate students, and undergraduate researchers. The successful candidate will assist with: 1) Conducting large infection assays of Botrytis isolates on multiple different plant species, 2) Collecting tissue from these infections and extracting RNA, 3) Generating transcriptomic libraries for RNA sequencing, 4) Develop a independent research question and test that question with this data and 5) writing and presentation of results to scientific community and stakeholders.
Info here: https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF04962
Postdoc
We are recruiting a new postdoc researcher. We are using the genetic variation in Botrytis cinerea as a tool to investigate the evolution of plant immunity across the rosids and asterids and ascertain what mechanisms are really most important.