<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><h2 class="mb-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(19, 19, 19); font-family: "Source Sans Pro Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin-bottom: 1.125rem !important;"><font size="4">USDA-ARS Molecular Biology Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Natural Products Utilization Research Unit</font></h2><div><a href="https://www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/Details/USDA-ARS-SEA-2026-0280">https://www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/Details/USDA-ARS-SEA-2026-0280</a></div><div><strong style="text-align: right; color: rgb(19, 19, 19); font-family: "Source Sans Pro Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; box-sizing: border-box;"><br></strong></div><div><strong style="text-align: right; color: rgb(19, 19, 19); font-family: "Source Sans Pro Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; box-sizing: border-box;">Organization </strong><span style="color: rgb(19, 19, 19); font-family: "Source Sans Pro Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)</span></div><div><div class="form-group" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px -6px 1rem; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; color: rgb(19, 19, 19); font-family: "Source Sans Pro Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="col-lg-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; width: 882.562px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px;"><strong style="text-align: right; font-size: 15.2px; box-sizing: border-box;"><br></strong></div><div class="col-lg-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; width: 882.562px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px;"><strong style="text-align: right; font-size: 15.2px; box-sizing: border-box;">Reference Code </strong><span style="font-size: 15.2px;">USDA-ARS-SEA-2026-0280</span></div></div><div class="form-group" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px -6px 1rem; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; color: rgb(19, 19, 19); font-family: "Source Sans Pro Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="col-lg-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; width: 882.562px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px;"><strong style="text-align: right; font-size: 15.2px; box-sizing: border-box;"><br></strong></div><div class="col-lg-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; width: 882.562px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px;"><strong style="text-align: right; font-size: 15.2px; box-sizing: border-box;">Application Deadline </strong><span style="font-size: 15.2px;">9/11/2026 3:00:00 PM Eastern Time Zone</span></div><div class="col-lg-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; width: 882.562px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px;"><strong style="text-align: right; font-size: 15.2px; box-sizing: border-box;"><br></strong></div><div class="col-lg-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; width: 882.562px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px;"><strong style="text-align: right; font-size: 15.2px; box-sizing: border-box;">Description</strong></div></div><div class="form-group" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px -6px 1rem; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; color: rgb(19, 19, 19); font-family: "Source Sans Pro Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="col-lg-3 form-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; width: 294.188px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: right; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px;"><div class="form-group" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px -6px 1rem; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-size: 15.2px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="col-lg-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; width: 882.562px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">*Applications are reviewed on a rolling-basis.</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">ARS Office/Lab and Location: </strong><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14.4px;">A research opportunity is currently available with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Natural Products Utilization Research Unit located in Oxford, Mississippi.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;">The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientific in-house research agency with a mission to find solutions to agricultural problems that affect Americans every day from field to table. ARS will deliver cutting-edge, scientific tools and innovative solutions for American farmers, producers, industry, and communities to support the nourishment and well-being of all people; sustain our nation’s agroecosystems and natural resources; and ensure the economic competitiveness and excellence of our agriculture. The vision of the agency is to provide global leadership in agricultural discoveries through scientific excellence.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Research Project: </strong>The Natural Products Utilization Research Unit develops natural products for use in agriculture, producing more toxicologically and environmentally benign pest management tools and improving the value of crops. A secondary mission is to conduct fundamental research to aid in the development of alternative crops to produce pharmaceuticals and botanical supplement active ingredients. This fellowship aims to improve crop protection from pests through the use of natural products, either by discovering safer natural pesticides or by manipulating their production in plants by genetic engineering or other means. You will use plant molecular biology to discover genes involved in the biosynthesis, transport, and metabolism of natural products with an emphasis on weed management and allelopathic interactions. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;">These directives require a multifaceted approach involving physiological, biochemical, and molecular experiments and the use of numerous techniques such as RNA-seq, data mining of DNA and protein sequence databases, analysis of gene function via CRISPR/Cas-9-mediated genome editing and RNAi, heterologous protein expression, real-time qRT-PCR, and plant transformation using species such as <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Arabidopsis</em>, rice, tobacco, sorghum, corn and wheat. The information generated will, for example, dramatically increase current understanding of the biosynthesis and genetic regulation of allelochemicals and provide the tools necessary to manipulate these pathways <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">in planta</em> via genetic engineering. </p></div></div></div></div></div><div>
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