Biologist II will mainly support the chemical screening of fungicides on several plant species that include wheat, soy, corn, and model testing systems.

Biologist II Responsibilities:

• Plants are evaluated by applying plant diseases and assessing leaf or seedling disease severity.
• Applicants will be maintaining experiments within growth chambers including cleaning and maintenance of area.
• Work will focus on plant care; planting, watering, chemical and disease application, rating of plant diseases, and data collection.
• In addition, this group maintains many plant pathogen subcultures for various assays/groups.
• Other opportunities in plant pathology screening of nematodes may also be obtained.
• Field work may also be required.

Biologist II Requirements:

• Requires a bachelor's degree and 2-5 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
• This position is to support the extent of projects for the fiscal year.
• Job requires experience working with plants, landscaping or nursery experience, aseptic/sterile technique working in laminar flow or bio-control hoods, and must be comfortable wearing N95 respirators.
• Applicant must have experience with common computer software; e.g. MS Office suite.
• If the applicant has some coursework or work experience in microbiology techniques, fungal or nematode plant pathology, chemical handling/spraying, and database/analysis software that is a plus but not required.

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