Job Description

What Your Responsibilities Will Be:

• Management of soybean and corn plants in a greenhouse setting including: planting, identity management, plant health maintenance, and experimentation.
• Design and conduction of experiments to improve identification of trait-positive plants in early growth stages.
• Tissue sampling and sample preparation of plants for phenotype and/or genotype analysis.
• Interpretation and analysis of experiment results, including drawing conclusions on efficacy of experiments.
• Field data collection including note taking and plant observations.

Qualifications

What You must have:

• Enrollment in a Bachelor’s degree program in agronomy, horticulture, biology, genetics/genomics, or similar. Current Sophomore or Junior standing and proven experience is preferred
• Current student continuing education upon completion of internship term (internship term is May 2025 through August 2025)
• Fluent in English
• Ability to communicate clearly
• Eligibility to work in the US

What you might also contribute to the team:

• Knowledge of and experience with greenhouse activities; OR
• Knowledge of and experience with crop production/agronomy; OR
• Experience working in a research setting

Additional Information

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