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The USDA Forest Service Region 8, Forest Health Protection, is outreaching a 2-year Term Biological Science Technician position at the Resistance Screening Center (RSC) located in the Bent Creek Experimental Forest in Asheville, North Carolina. The RSC is a facility where tree seedlings are propagated and screened against a variety of plant pathogens to determine resistance. Priority diseases include fusiform rust & pitch canker on southeastern pines, Phytophthora root rot on hybrid chestnut, dogwood anthracnose, and brown spot needle blight.

The USDA-APHIS-PPQ in Nogales, Arizona has an opening for our Smuggling Interdiction and Trade Compliance Officer position. Please share the USAJobs link below to any prospective students. I have also included the position requirements, which I am sure a lot of your students would qualify with.

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/588373600

At the School of Plant Sciences, in the University of Arizona, Tucson has an open position for a research lab technician. 

One MS /Ph.D. Research Assistant Position for fall, 2021. The successful applicants will conduct experiments on the development of advanced diagnostic methods for rapid and confident identification of plant diseases due to virus, bacteria, or fungus using next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies such as minION, PacBio sequencing. The successful candidate is expected to conduct lab and greenhouse experiments under the supervision of Dr. Ali in different pathosystems.

Pay: 25,800 per year

Requirement: