A temporary Research Scholar position is available immediately for a skilled and trained plant molecular biologist. The job duties include, designing and implementing experiments to monitor plant responses to nutrient limitation including phosphate and nitrogen.  The successful candidate will be responsible for setting up the experiments, harvesting time points and preparing samples for inositol pyrophosphate measurements and  RNA-Seq analysis.  Additional duties include expressing fusion constructs in planta and visualization by confocal microscopy.   

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