<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Jennifer Gremer</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:jrgremer@ucdavis.edu">jrgremer@ucdavis.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, May 28, 2020 at 4:03 PM<br>Subject: Fw: Research assistant position<br>To: Jennifer Gremer <<a href="mailto:jrgremer@ucdavis.edu">jrgremer@ucdavis.edu</a>><br>CC: Johanna Schmitt <<a href="mailto:jschmitt@ucdavis.edu">jschmitt@ucdavis.edu</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">We are looking to hire a technician to work on a collaborative project studying the evolution of the seasonal germination niche in a group of native wildflowers (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal"><i style="line-height:normal">Streptanthus</i></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">)
with Annie Schmitt, Sharon Strauss, and Julin Maloof.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">This is an ideal position for a recent graduate looking for research experience before graduate school.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">
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<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">Responsibilities include carrying out experiments in the field, lab, and controlled environment chambers, collecting field data and plant tissues, propagating plants and maintaining experimental populations.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">Field work will include plant surveys and collections of plant specimens and seeds.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">The technician will also oversee student assistants, manage databases, and perform basic statistical analyses, as well as coordinate supplies, equipment, and safety protocols.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">
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<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal"><b style="line-height:normal">Requirements</b></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">College-level course-work or equivalent experience/training in plant-related biological sciences or field biology. The applicant must possess excellent written and oral communication and strong organizational
skills.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">Must be able to organize and coordinate lab, greenhouse, controlled chamber, and field research.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">Experience accurately recording, organizing, coordinating and curating data for analysis and reporting required, as well as skills to problem solve and trouble shoot, and ability to work independently
and as a member of a research team.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">Research experience with plants, especially germination experiments, phenology, and field surveys preferred, as is experience using R software for data management and statistical analyses, experience working
with herbarium specimens, and molecular biology lab experience working with DNA and/or RNAseq.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">
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<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">This is a full-time position.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">Starting date can be immediately or as soon as possible, with a proposed duration of one year with possibility of extension.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal"><b style="line-height:normal">Application:</b></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">
</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">Please go to the following link to access the UC Davis Human Resources application system and apply by</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal"><b style="line-height:normal"> June 6,
2020:</b></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal"> </span></b></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucdavis/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST&JobOpeningId=7869&PostingSeq=1&SiteId=7&languageCd=ENG&FOCUS=Applicant" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">https://careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucdavis/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST&JobOpeningId=7869&PostingSeq=1&SiteId=7&languageCd=ENG&FOCUS=Applicant</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">Contact Annie Schmitt (<a href="mailto:jschmitt@ucdavis.edu" target="_blank">jschmitt@ucdavis.edu</a>) and/or me (<a href="mailto:jrgremer@ucdavis.edu" target="_blank">jrgremer@ucdavis.edu</a>) for inquiries or additional information. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">Please feel free to pass this along to your networks, we are searching broadly to fill the position. Sorry for double posts. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">Hope you are all healthy and safe! </span><br>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">Best,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal">Jenny</span></p>
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Office: Storer Hall 4324</p>
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Phone: (530) 752-1888</p>
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living creatures ~ David Suzuki---</span></font></p>
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