Part-Time Assistant for Research of Floral Traits and Plant-Pollinator Interactions
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Job Location:
University Park, IL - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
29 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS
The López-Uribe Lab is hiring a part-time employee to workas a research assistant doing lab assays on pollen and nectar samples growing and managing plants for greenhouse studies and doing data collection measuring a variety of traits on plants in greenhouse candidatemust have great organization skills and attention to detail. Previous experiencewith growing plants in the greenhouse and lab techniques (following protocols pipetting operating lab equipment etc.) is position is available through December 31 2025. Applications consist of a cover letter CV and the contact details of two references willing to provide letters of recommendation.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Entering data from a study on squash plant floral variation
- Conducting spectrophotometry lab assays to measure protein / lipid content on pollen samples and sugar content in nectar samples
- Growing and managing plants in growth chambers for use an experimental evolution study
- Assisting with developing methods to measure a variety of traits onBrassicaFast Plants used in experimental evolution studies
- Assisting with developing methods to conduct bumble bee pollination treatments ofBrassicaplants
- Assisting with data curation data analysis and drafting peer reviewed paper
LOCATION AND COMMITMENTS
- The work would be primarily at the López-Uribe Lab at the Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building on the University Park campus
- 5 hours a week specific working times are flexible
- Most work will be restricted to weekdays and normal working hours but there may be occasional odd hours to manage plants of conduct experiments
KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
- The person in this position will primarily be working with the postdoctoral researcher who is leading the research though supervision and direction will also come from Margarita López-Uribe. We do expect the employee to eventually work mostly independently on some tasks such as managing plants and possibly some data collection tasks. Helpful timely and respectful communication with researchers in the López-Uribe and other collaborations is necessary.
Compensation:
The starting rate for this job is $18/hour.
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