Postdoctoral Research Associate

Job Title
Postdoctoral Research Associate


Agency
Texas A&M Agrilife Research


Department
Institute for Advancing Health through Agriculture-Project Management



Proposed Minimum Salary
$4,166.67 monthly



Job Location
College Station, Texas



Job Type
Staff



Job Description
Job Description Summary
The postdoctoral fellow will focus areas that improve nutritional qualities in crops using plant genetics, genomics, metabolomics, ionomics, biofortification and functional genetics studies. The objective of this research project is to understand the genetic basis of polyphenolic compound production in pecans and pears using metabolomics, transcriptomics, and post-harvest physiology.

Essential Duties/Tasks
+ In consultation with the PI, designs and executes experiments.
+ Prepares samples for metabolite and micronutrient analysis of tree crops.