Assistant or Associate Professor, Cereal and Flax Crop Pathologist, Crop Development Centre

Assistant or Associate Professor, Cereal and Flax Crop Pathologist, Crop Development Centre

The Crop Development Centre (CDC), Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) invites applications for a crop pathologist to work on small grain cereal (wheat species, barley, oat, canary seed; 85% activity) and flax (15% of activity). This position is considered continuing status (tenure-track-equivalent) and will be hired at either the assistant or associate professor level, depending on qualifications and experiences.

The successful candidate will assume a well established and productive cereal and flax pathology program. They will develop a world-class, externally funded field-based research program with focus on cereal and flax pathology. The position will integrate applied research (, identification and deployment of host resistance) with fundamental research (, the biology of fungal and bacterial pathogens and their interactio...