• Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS)
• Department of Plant Physiology
• full-time (38 hours per week) for a period of 18 months

The aim of the project is to identify transcription factors involved in the regulation of flavour production in tomato fruit. The technician will operate within the Centre of Biosystem Genomics (CBSG), in the tomato quality project – a collaboration between the UvA, Plant Research International (Wageningen) and Keygene (Wageningen). The project aims to clone fruit-specific transcription factors from tomato cultivars with contrasting flavours. Homology-based PCR experiments and microarray experiments will provide a comprehensive set of candidate transcription factors that are fruit-specific and differentially expressed. The collection of cDNAs will be 1) overexpressed using fruit-specific and inducible promoters in tomato plants, and 2) used for RNAi constructs. Technical approaches include PCR, gene cloning, microarray hybridizations, vector construction, transformation of tomato cultivars, analyses of transgenic plants.

Information
For more information, please contact Prof. M.A. Haring, phone + 31 20-525 7663, e-mail or Dr R.C. Schuurink, phone + 31 20-525 7933, e-mail
For information about SILS: www.science.uva.nl/sils.

Candidates should have a technical or Master degree (technician or equivalent) in cell biology, tissue culture, plant transformation or molecular biology.

- Technical/Laboratory

Additional information about the job:
The Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS) is the faculty’s largest institute. Its approximately 250 scientists and staff members work in eleven research groups that perform excellent research centred on four themes: 1) The Living Cell, 2) Plants and Health, 3) Inside and Beyond the Brain, and 4) Life Science Technologies.

The Universiteit van Amsterdam Faculty of Science

The Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) is one of Europe’s leading institutions for higher education. It participates in the international science network by collaborating with major universities throughout the world. The Faculty of Science consists of four departments, within which some 1,500 employees (including researchers and lecturers) and 150 full- and part-time professors operate in eleven research institutes.

Each institute has its own research programme. These programmes are funded jointly by the faculty, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Dutch government and various private enterprises and EU departments.

Employment basis: Temporary for specified period
Duration of the contract: for a maximum period of 18 months, with the possibility of an extension

Additional conditions of employment:
The appointment will be on a temporary basis for a maximum period of 18 months, with the possibility of an extension if the project is positively evaluated. Based on a full-time appointment (38 hours per week), the gross monthly maximum salary will be € 1,823 in the first year (scale 7), according to the Dutch salary scales for technical personnel and depending on qualifications and experience.

 
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