Fecha:

4 feb 2025
Your Tasks & Responsibilities:
Lead and execute large-scale inoculum production, ensuring that the amount, viability, timing, and representativeness meet the required standards, reflecting both natural and current pathogen populations.
Efficiently manage resources to meet production goals, including personnel, budget, laboratory/facility usage, scalability, and cost-efficiency in inoculum production.
Enhance and optimize inoculum production and diagnostic protocols for new and emerging plant pathogens.
Collect and analyze disease data, ensuring it is performed at the proper time and in agreement with quality standards.
Contribute to innovation and automation projects for data collection in the field and greenhouse.
Train and educate staff on proper sampling techniques, diagnostic methodologies, pathogen handling protocols, and data collection.
Collect, isolate, culture, and properly store diverse plant pathogens to build and preserve the organization's pathogen collection for long-term viability and usability.
Provide timely diagnostic results and recommendations to support breeding decisions aimed at developing disease-resistant crop varieties.
Implement quality assurance practices to ensure diagnostic tests meet established standards and regulatory requirements.
Who You Are:
MSc or Ph D in Plant Pathology or similar areas with demonstrated experience in lab and field data collection.
Strong background in pathogen identification, pathogen preservation, and inoculation for virulence/aggressiveness assays.
Experience in disease assessment for corn diseases or other similar crops.
Results-oriented, adaptable, and detail-focused. Skilled at leading stakeholders through challenges and opportunities. Strong teamwork, creativity, and communication skills.
Able to manage multiple projects and priorities.
Availability to travel during the seasons; Driver's license (B category).

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