Researcher Micropropagation

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Enza Zaden is looking for an innovative and driven Researcher eager to develop cell technology methods that can be implemented in breeding programs to accelerate the development of new vegetable varieties.

What are you going to do?

As a Cell Technology Researcher, you will lead research projects and implementation of new methods in the field of in vitro plant propagation, spanning from somatic embryogenesis and organogenesis to cell suspension culture-based in vitro plant regeneration systems. You will work closely with your Cell Technology colleagues as well as other Biotechnology teams and breeding teams highly motivated to develop the best vegetable varieties.

Department

At Cell Technology (CT), we cooperate with breeding and other Biotechnology departments to deliver plants with various genetic value. Within cell biology research, we focus on developing protocols that enable us to copy, fix and generate new genetics. Once we have established these protocols, we work closely with our production team to run them in a routine environment and transforming these protocols into products that are used by the various breeding/Biotechnology teams. We have experience in plant growth, double haploid production, micropropagation, plant transformation and genome editing, chemical and genetic mutagenesis, protoplast-based technologies and embryo rescue. We are keen on expanding our technology portfolio by exploring advances in the above-mentioned techniques.

Your power

You are passionate about plant development and eager to translate research findings into practical applications in cell biology that serve breeding needs. You fit well working in a team and, as a researcher, you are also able to work independently and accurately. Your natural curiosity drives you to investigate, experiment and conclude in practical and timely manner. You come up with creative solutions fitting the situational needs. Your attitude is analytic, proactive and practical. You are perseverant when dealing with complex challenges and you have a flexible mindset that allows you to switch between activities and reprioritise when needed in a fast pace, dynamic organisation. Thanks to your good communication skills, you connect easily with people on multiple levels and take position based on relevant arguments for improvements in the process chain.

In short, you:

• have a PhD degree in (green) life sciences with at least 2 years of relevant experience in plant biology or a MSc in (green) life sciences with at least 5 years of relevant experience in plant biology;

• are experienced with a wide range of in vitro cell and tissue methodologies;

• are experienced with project management and the supervision of students;

• are knowledgeable about micropropagation and cell suspension culture techniques;

• are passionated about plant development and plant regeneration biology;

• have affinity with scouting and implementation of new technologies in the field of cell and tissue culture;

• have interest in translating research findings into practical applications;

• are fluent in English;

• enjoy working in an international team.

Our Power

Enza Zaden is a vegetable breeding company that develops vegetable varieties. And produces and sells its seeds all over the world. To explain to you properly (and as briefly as possible) what we do, we have created an animation.

The goal of our work? Giving everyone worldwide access to healthy and varied vegetables. With more than 2,500 passionate colleagues around the world, we work together every day on tomorrow's vegetables.

Would you like to know more about Enza Zaden as an employer? Then take a look at the Careers & Learning page or check out our page on LinkedIn.

A sneak peak of our benefits:

• Flexible working policy

• Home working allowance

• Travel allowance at +10 km home/work distance based on Google Maps

• 8.33% holiday allowance

• Performance reward percentage

• Individual and collective salary increase

• 25 holidays + 1 vitality day (other vitality days depend on age)

• Contribution to pension scheme

Interested?

Send your application to our Recruitment Department via the Apply button.

More information:

Annemarie Weening

Senior Corporate Recruiter

+31 62970 6834

a.weening@enzazaden.nl

Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated