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Position:

• Research Assistant

Shift:

• Monday-Friday 7am-3:30pm

Pay:

• $16-17/hr

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Associate's degree within the Life Sciences OR 6 months of greenhouse or field experience preferred (degree is not required)

Description:

• Performing day to day greenhouse/growth chamber activities including planting, pollinating, tissue sampling, pest/disease scouting, harvesting, threshing, discarding, chamber sanitation, general plant care, data collection, data entry, facility cleanliness and maintaining safety standards

• Working in the new soybean growth chambers

• Collecting tissue samples off of soybean plants for DNA analysis

• Watering, potting soil, and caring for all plants in the growth chamber

• Replanting samples after data review

• Assisting in operating the soybean threshing machine

• Plating samples to be tested by the Molecular Marker group

• Cleaning of the facility and other basic duties as assigned

• Plant maintenance including trimming, training, and node cleaning

• Cross pollinating

• Plant discard

• Will be working with soybean, wheat, pollen and dust

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