Priority may be given to the following designated employment equity groups: women, Indigenous peoples* (First Nations, Inuit and Métis), persons with disabilities and racialized persons*.

• The Employment Equity Act, which is under review, uses the terminology Aboriginal peoples and visible minorities.

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City: Saskatoon
Organizational Unit: Aquatic and Crop Resource Development
Classification: TO-3
Tenure: Continuing
Language Requirements: English

EDUCATION

B.Sc. in Biology, Crop Science or related discipline from a recognized university with coursework in plant (or crop) physiology, molecular biology, and genetics.
For information on certificates and diplomas issued abroad, please see Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE

• *Significant experience in experimental studies focused on plant root systems.
• *Significant experience with candidate gene identification including fine mapping and/or functional genomics using molecular biology techniques such as DNA- or RNA-sequencing.
• Experience using R and/or Python for data science and bioinformatics.

Assets:

• Experience with high-throughput digital phenotyping and development of crop digitization pipelines. Skills in 3D and/or hyperspectral (NIR/SWIR) imaging.
• Experience in metabolite and / or protein extraction and analysis.
• Experience in research involving plant-microbe interactions.
• Significant refers to a minimum of three (3) years of experience.

LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS

English
Information on language requirements and self-assessment tests

Help bring research to life and drive your career forward with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Canada’s largest research and technology organization.
We are looking for a Technical Officer to support our Integrated Omics and Climate Resilience team within the Aquatic and Crop Resource Development Research Centre (ACRD). The Technical Officer would be someone who shares our core values of Integrity, Excellence, Respect and Creativity.
The successful candidate will play an important role within a multi-disciplinary team working to discover and implement technologies to enable development of crops with enhanced productivity and resilience. Specifically, the successful candidate will work within projects focused on the identification of beneficial crop root traits using a variety of 2D and 3D high-throughput imaging platforms.
Key focus areas will be:
1. Developing high-throughput screening methods for crop root improvement
2. Assessing root diversity across various Canadian field and forage crops
3. Collecting multi-omics data to integrate DNA variants with gene, protein, and metabolite expression, and
4. Identifying key climate-resilience traits and the underlying genes and allelic variants for resilient root systems.
Responsibilities include contributions to experimental design, data management, analysis and interpretation of results, and recommendations for workflow improvements as needed. The incumbent will also be responsible for maintaining laboratory and phenotyping equipment and keeping detailed experimental records.