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add this to-do item to your calendarPostdoctoral Fellow — Molecular Marker Plant Breeding Strategies
Due: Monday 13th September 2010
WWW: recruitment.csiro.au/asp/Job_Details.asp?RefNo=2010/566
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CSIRO are seeking to appoint a highly motivated Postdoctoral Fellow to design and evaluate alternative breeding strategies using molecular markers. These strategies range from back-cross introgression of single gene traits, to the use of recurrent selection based on QTL and/or genome-wide methods. The fellow will work with breeders of a range of crops to design customised breeding schemes and software to assist this process, and will also research globally efficient methods to improve crops for multiple adaptive traits. The latter will require the design and execution of large complex computer simulations (using existing crop and genetic simulation tools) and the statistical analysis of simulations to identify efficient methods of genetic prediction and selection.
The applicant will work with several scientists in CSIRO, including a programmer, and with well-recognised researchers in the Netherlands, France, UK, USA and Mexico and contribute to a high-profile effort to develop software tools to enable molecular breeding approaches in developing country and public breeding programs. The position is for 3 years from appointment.
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