The Senior Plant Pathologist will be responsible to establish pathology systems across crops including but not limited to corn, soybean, sunflower and tomato. Lead and support trait discovery and validation projects by conducting hands-on experiments, collaborating with key experts and functions both within and outside of Syngenta. The selected individual will provide scientific leadership in plant pathology in the context of lab, Greenhouse and field environments with a mindset that pathology is an integral part of multi-disciplinary approach to develop viable disease resistance traits for the growers to protect yield loss.
Responsibilities
- Hold the highest standards on science quality and integrity
- Possess deep knowledge and extensive experience through training and working in conducting crop pathology experiments from collecting inoculum, culture inoculum at appropriate scales, inoculation and disease susceptible/tolerance/resistance ratings in lab, GH and field environments.
- Develop correlations of disease susceptible/tolerance/resistance ratings in different environments as required by project.
- Perform wet-lab experiments to test hypothesis using surrogate assays and crop/disease specific assays to gather evidence for lead prioritization
- Create and test hypothesis reiteratively and make recommendations as crop pathology experts
- Be the focal point of creating, internalizing and implementing plant pathology techniques and knowledge that enable the organization to meet the needs of the growers
- Seek out, identify, communicate and encourage examples of best practice from internal and external sources of information