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The incumbent will be assigned to the carrot breeding and genetics program, located in the Vegetable Crop Research Unit, Madison, WI. The assignment is to establish and conduct research evaluating genomic information underlying traits influencing crop production and consumer value to assess its potential utility for crop improvement.
Qualifications:
This position requires a recent Ph.D (within the last four years) in in genetics, bioinformatics, genomics, computational biology, plant breeding, or a related field of study that has equipped the applicant with the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties and responsibilities of the position.
Applicants must meet basic Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standard's requirements of the scientific discipline necessary to perform the duties and responsibilities of the position.
Genetics Series 0440
Degree: genetics; or one of the basic biological sciences that included at least 9 semester hours in genetics.
Graduate Education: Genetics, or a curriculum or pattern of training that placed major emphasis on genetics. Graduate study in related fields such as agronomy, horticulture, animal, dairy, or poultry husbandry, entomology, microbiology, plant pathology, chemistry, molecular and cellular biology, and physiology that involved cross-training in genetics is qualifying, provided it placed sufficient emphasis on genetics.
Full Time
Public Administration
$69k-84k (estimate)
07/26/2023
07/23/2024
ars.usda.gov
ATHENS, GA
50 - 100
2011
C RICHARD BARB
<$5M
Public Administration
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