Job Description:
Kaiima is hiring a Molecular Geneticist to join our fast-paced, highly collaborative R&D team at our St. Louis R&D center. We invite motivated scientists with a knack for delivering high impact results, recognizing opportunities, and solving problems to join us. Principal Accountabilities:
Additional Info:
Kaiima is breaking plant breeding barriers to accelerate sustainable crop productivity gains. We combine cutting edge genomics & breeding tools to create novel methods of tackling issues limiting plant breeding success. Our EP™ technology creates high value genetic diversity and is the cornerstone of our collaboration with leading seed company partners to improve corn, soybean, canola, sunflower, and other crops. We also have the world’s leading castor breeding & development program. Please submit your CV and cover letter. Kaiima is an equal opportunity employer. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Job Type: Full-time Required education: Master's Required experience: post-graduate molecular genetics: 3 years[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]
Kaiima is hiring a Molecular Geneticist to join our fast-paced, highly collaborative R&D team at our St. Louis R&D center. We invite motivated scientists with a knack for delivering high impact results, recognizing opportunities, and solving problems to join us. Principal Accountabilities:
- Lead QTL mapping and gene discovery projects. Projects address important traits across an array of crops and will work require close work with seed industry partners. Additional work will include internal projects focused on agronomic traits that advance Kaiima’s best in class castor genetics.
- Utilize bioinformatics tools to strengthen genotype-phenotype association models and to identify gene targets
- Design sequence-based assays for detection of target genes
- Drive high quality, timely delivery of results
- Identify and establish collaborations that advance the speed and quality of the R&D pipeline
- Communicate experimental and analytical results to internal and external audiences
- PhD in genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, computational biology, or related field and three years of post-graduate experience or MS and 3-5 years of experience in an industry setting
- Excellent analytical skills and high level experience with R and bioinformatics analysis packages
- Solid understanding of sequencing data and analysis
- Demonstrated ability to innovate solutions to address novel opportunities and challenges
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Experience in trait discovery and marker development
- Experience in supporting a breeding program desired
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Additional Info:
Kaiima is breaking plant breeding barriers to accelerate sustainable crop productivity gains. We combine cutting edge genomics & breeding tools to create novel methods of tackling issues limiting plant breeding success. Our EP™ technology creates high value genetic diversity and is the cornerstone of our collaboration with leading seed company partners to improve corn, soybean, canola, sunflower, and other crops. We also have the world’s leading castor breeding & development program. Please submit your CV and cover letter. Kaiima is an equal opportunity employer. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Job Type: Full-time Required education: Master's Required experience: post-graduate molecular genetics: 3 years[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]