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The College of Plant and Soil Sciences is looking for an excellent candidate to fill its new faculty position. This position is a tenure eligible position with a 12-month appointment with research, teaching, and service responsibilities. The annual distribution of effort will be aligned with this colleague's strengths and college/department needs

This position will develop a visionary research program to evaluate herbicide-plant interactions and/or weed biology and evolution. The faculty member will demonstrate the ability to apply modern plant physiology, biochemistry, and molecular genetics/genomics techniques to studies of weedy plant species and their management. Areas of interest (not mutually exclusive) include herbicide selectivity mechanisms and herbicide sites of action, the biochemical, physiological, and molecular genetic mechanisms attendant with the evolution and establishment of herbicide tolerance/resistance in weeds, and the molecular and physiological characteristics that define weedy plant species.

This faculty member will contribute to the instructional mission of the department by teaching in the Agricultural and Medical Biotechnology and Agricultural Ecosystem Sciences undergraduate programs, as well as in the Integrated Plant and Soil Sciences Graduate Program. Teaching assignments will be based on the program needs plus the candidate's interests and qualifications.

Plant and Soil Science is one of the largest colleges in the Agriculture, Food, and Environment at the University of Kentucky. Please follow this link to learn more about the exciting research we are doing. https://pss.ca.uky.edu/

Attached application materials are to include:

strong written and oral communication skills

Doctoral Degree

Post-doctoral experience in basic and/or applied weed science, as well as in aspects of genome-scale plant biology, is desirable.

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doctorate in weed science, plant physiology, plant biochemistry, plant molecular genetics, or related fields

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