The incumbent serves as a Research Scientist in the Global Change and Photosynthesis
Research Unit (GCPRU) in Urbana, Illinois. GCPRU research addresses one of the greatest
challenges facing agriculture – global climate change – in the context of crop and weed
management. GCPRU research adapts crops and cropping systems to rising atmospheric
carbon dioxide, ozone concentrations, increasing temperature, altered precipitation patterns,
and weed interference. Incumbent’s research focuses on genetics, diversity, and stress
resistance mechanisms that facilitate the evolution of weedy species and wild crop relatives
and contribute to their ability to compete with mainstream crops. Strategies to interfere with
these mechanisms in weeds, or transfer climate resilience traits into mainstream crop species
to improve their competitive ability, may be used to control weeds.
U.S. Citizenship is required.Degree: genetics; or one of the basic biological sciences that included at least 9 semester hours in genetics.Graduate Education: Genetics, or a curriculum or pattern of training that placed major emphasis on genetics or population biology. Graduate study in related fields such as agronomy, horticulture, plant sciences, biology, plant pathology, chemistry, molecular and cellular biology, and physiology that involved cross-training in genetics is qualifying, provided it placed sufficient emphasis on genetics.Additional requirements available at the website listed below.
