Website Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department Plant Physiology, Umeå University

A 2-year postdoctoral position funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation is available in Peter Kindgren’s research group at Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC). The postdoc is going to be placed at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, that is part of UPSC.

Plants spend a lot of energy to be in a stand-by mode for eventual stress conditions. Some of that energy could be used to create more biomass. We have identified a gene regulation circuit in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana that functions as a switch between biomass generation and stress response. By optimizing this circuit, we can potentially create plants that grow faster when there is no stress present and have increased stress resilience when a stress condition occurs. The project consists of work in Arabidopsis, barley and wheat. The candidate will use molecular methods (transformation, cloning, RT-qPCR, phenotyping, CRISPR-Cas9) to create superior plant lines. The project will also further investigate the molecular mechanisms behind the circuit. The project is financed by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

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