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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Crop Genetic Resources and Informatics

Ames, IA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-04 → 2026-10-07

Core

Apply genome informatics and quantitative genetic approaches to trait analysis in maize, including work on maize pangenomics and population diversity.

Role type

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Crop Informatics)

Builds

Research outputs on crop genetic resources and population diversity

Deliverable

research

Required skills

population genomic analyses, large-scale biological dataset management, SLURM-based HPC, R

Preferred skills

external research funding acquisition, teaching/mentoring, scholarly productivity (publications), GitHub/version control, interdisciplinary collaboration

Technologies

R, SLURM, GitHub

Responsibilities

Conduct population genomic analyses of crop species; manage and analyze large-scale biological datasets; utilize high-performance computing systems for research

Seniority

Postdoctoral Researcher