Phd Candidate: Optimizing High-density Crop

2 maanden geleden

Venlo, Nederland Maastricht University Voltijd

The Brightlands Future Farming Institute (BFFI) of Maastricht University (UM) studies plant traits that are relevant to crop quality. Our research focuses on cultivation methods and the understanding of plant responses to enable further optimisation using growth methods and optimisation of genetics using both conventional and molecular technologies. If you would like to be part of a developing institute, are interested in applied crop research and meet our requirements, please respond to this vacancy.

The success of plant cultivation is the product of genetics, the environmental conditions and growth management. Optimized crop production is especially important when efficient use of space and energy is required such is the case of indoor crops. This research project aims to identify the genetic bottlenecks of efficiency gain of indoor lettuce production in horizontal and vertical hydroculture systems. Plant growth responses to different environmental conditions will be tested in high-tech climate rooms and related to the genetic composition of the tested lettuce varieties. Based on the observations, the role of specific genes will be tested, either through mutagenesis, or through crosses between lettuce varieties with identified traits.

This research will be caried out in collaboration with a vegetable seed company and requires communications skills to optimize the information exchange. The practical work will include growing and accurate phenotyping of lettuce varieties and mutants in climate rooms and greenhouse. Another major part is molecular laboratory work to identify genes involved in traits, and to characterization their function in the observed plant responses.
- carry out independent research, supported by your supervisors from Envirogenetics, Plant Functional Genomics and the breeder of the collaborating vegetable seed company
- help with general tasks of the BFFI and participate in education provided by the institute
- be co-responsible for optimal communication with the involved seed company.
- write publications based on your scientific work, culminating in a PhD thesis.

Specifically, you will work at the interface of plant physiology, molecular biology and genetics. You will phenotype plants, study gene expression and gene function in relation to the traits that are relevant for breeding.

**Were are you going to work?**

**Requirements**:
You are a scientifically curious person who wants to understand how differences in plants are regulated by the genome.
You have:

- an MSc degree in plant breeding, plant physiology, plant genetics, or a related plant science discipline.
- experience in molecular analysis (wet lab work)
- experience or affinity with bioinformatics (computational work)
- a hands-on approach to phenotyping plants for own research and helping with maintenance (greenhouse work)
- to able to start as PhD student at UM within four months

**Other job related requirements are**:

- you can be (or have been) in a PhD programme, but you cannot be a PhD holder;
- you must have less than 4 years of research experience, i.e., you should be an early-stage researcher; you should have high-level of English;**What we offer**
- and horticulture area in Western-Europet. In addition, we offer you:

- An employment contract for a period of 12 months with a scope of 1,0 FTE. Upon a positive evaluation, an extension of 3 years will follow.
- At Maastricht University, the well-being of our employees is of utmost importance, we offer flexible working hours and the possibility to work partly from home if the nature of your position allows it. You will receive a monthly commuting and internet allowance for this. If you work full-time, you will be entitled to 29 vacation days and 4 additional public holidays per year, namely carnival Monday, carnival Tuesday, Good Friday, and Liberation Day. If you choose to accumulate compensation hours, an additional 12 days will be added. Furthermore, you can personalize your employment conditions through a collective labor agreement (CAO) choice model.
- As Maastricht University, we offer various other excellent secondary employment conditions. These include a good pension scheme with the ABP and the opportunity for UM employees to participate in company fitness and make use of the extensive sports facilities that we also offer to our students.
- Last but certainly not least, we provide the space and facilities for your personal and professional development. We facilitate this by offering a wide range of training programs and supporting various well-established initiatives such as 'acknowledge and appreciate'.

The terms of employment at Maastricht University are largely set out in the collective labor agreement of Dutch Universities. In addition, local provisions specific to UM apply. For more information, click here.

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