Temporary Nonexempt

Job duties or responsibilities

• Rust flora on Berberis, Rhamnus, Frangula, Thalictrum and Ornathogalum (looking for and identifying cereal rusts from these plants that serve as the alternate hosts of cereal rusts).
  These would entail field surveys, lab inoculations, deriving cultures, sequencing. This is an on-going activity for me.
• Sexual compatibility between different rust forms (or species) on the same alternate hosts (for instance, sexual compatibility between oat crown rust and barley crown rust on Rhamnus cathartica; between stem rust and stripe rust on Berberis, etc.). These would entail cross experiments in the lab. We started setting up the experiments.
• Identify accessory hosts of cereal rusts, such as what accessory hosts in North America that sustains the QFCSC population.
  
  

Required

• PhD

Preferred

• Previous experience in the field

Since 1907 the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Minnesota has had a strong impact on plant health, agricultural development, and ecosystem vitality on a local, national, and international scale.
While the field of plant pathology continues to evolve, the goals of the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Minnesota remain the same:

• Solving today's complex plant health problems through cutting-edge research
• Providing sound plant health advice to stakeholders throughout Minnesota and around the globe.
• Educating the next generation of plant health professionals and change-makers through a modern and broad plant pathology curriculum.

Pay Range: $40-42 per hour; depending on education/qualifications/experience.

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