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The Crop Adaptation Lab at Colorado State University is seeking a postdoctoral fellow with expertise in plant genomics and bioinformatics. Primary responsibility of the postdoc will be to identify putative climate-adaptive alleles in sorghum, a key global food security crop, using whole genome resequencing and evolutionary functional genomic analyses. The postdoc will also collaborate with a team of postdocs at CSU, Penn State, and CERAAS-Senegal on field and controlled-environment experiments to test hypotheses on the adaptive value of these alleles; and contribute to development of molecular breeding technology that will allow African breeding programs to deploy these alleles in climate-resilient varieties. The postdoc will prepare publications for high-quality peer-reviewed journals, present findings at international scientific conferences, and receive mentoring to advance their scientific career. The successful applicant will be committed to rigorous application of the scientific method for genetic discoveries; and equally committed to translating these discoveries for global food security under climate change. The postdoc will have strong communication skills (written and oral) and commitment to inclusion that will allow them to contribute to and/or lead collaborations across a diverse international team of scientists. The position is supported for 5 years, as part of a $25 M investment on allele mining for climate adaptation funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and led by CIMMYT.

We are also recruiting postdocs in Molecular Breeding & Germplasm Development and a Plant Stress Physiology postdoc at CSU and two postdocs in Ecological Genomics and Striga Sorghum Interactions at Penn State. Please contact Dr. Geoffrey Morris at CSU (geoff.morris@colostate.edu) or Dr. Jesse Lasky at PSU (jrl35@psu.edu) for more information, or questions about which position might be the best fit for you. You can also visit this site with links to the full list of positions: https://www.morrislab.org/allele-mining-postdocs 

Required: Ph.D. in Plant Bioinformatics, Genetics, Genomics, or related field (by start of appointment)
Strong record of publications in peer-reviewed journals

Preferred: Demonstrated expertise in quantitative trait genomics, bioinformatics, or crop genetics  Demonstrated written and oral communications skills 
Demonstrated expertise in bioinformatics and/or genomic analyses 
Demonstrated interest in applying science to global challenges in crop improvement