Senior Scientist Resistant Research

What you’ll do

You will contribute across the full resistance-monitoring workflow-from planning global sample logistics and maintaining high-quality metadata, through to culturing pathogens, running bioassays and applying NGS molecular methods. Your work may include:

• Supporting monitoring programmes for business-impactful fungal and oomycete pathogens, including Zymoseptoria tritici, Botrytis cinerea, Plasmopara viticola, Phytophthora infestans, Alternaria spp and more.
• Coordinating the logistics of incoming and outgoing samples and biological material from across the world.
• Isolating, cultivating and maintaining plant-pathogenic organisms under sterile conditions.
• Performing bioassays and molecular analyses, including DNA extraction, primer design, PCR, qPCR, Sanger, NGS sequencing, and cloning.
• Analysing bioassay data-such as EC50 values-and connecting phenotypic results with molecular markers and field efficacies.
• Improving and standardising laboratory workflows across diverse sample types and pathogens.
• Managing sample metadata and monitoring results with precision and care.
• Collaborating closely with colleagues across the Resistance Research team to solve problems and move projects forward.
• Working safely and in line with Health, Safety and Environment standards.