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Laboratory Assistant
A full-time laboratory assistant position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Manjul Dutt. The person will assist with citrus breeding and improvement research at the Citrus Research and Education Center in Lake Alfred. Their main responsibility will be to provide support for ongoing projects and research conducted by graduate students, and duties will include aseptic tissue culture and genetic transformation experiments. Email Dr. Dutt at manjul@ufl.edu for more information.
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OPS – Non-Clerical Position
Part time position (20-30 hours per week) to support ongoing insect, mite, and snail management projects. Applicants must be capable of working in lab, greenhouse, and outdoor environments in central Florida.
Work Hours: Part time position (20-30 hours per week) (0.75FTE)
Rate of Pay: $17.00 per Hour
Tasks Include:
- Greenhouse watering.
- Plant and insect care.
- Quantifying insect and snail pressure in ongoing field sites.
- Assist with weekly maintenance of spore traps which includes exchanging marine deep cycle batteries (60# batteries using buddy system)
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OPS – Greenhouse Tech
Our research program, located in Lake Alfred Florida, has a part-time OPS position for Greenhouse work. An ideal candidate will have experience working in a greenhouse or plant nursery.
Duties Include:
- Primary responsibility of this position is for grafting citrus trees. This includes inoculation of
- CTV-infected budwood into receptor trees, and propagation of scions onto rootstock. Grafts are to
- be checked after two weeks to see if grafts have successfully established.
- Hand watering and fertilization of citrus trees and seedlings, as well as tobacco plants.
- Transplanting citrus seedlings and tobacco as needed.
- Assist with keeping and orderly greenhouse, including washing citrus pots.
- Appropriate disposal of recombinant plant tissues is required.
- Scouting for insect pests.
- Occasionally spraying of micronutrients and non-restricted use pesticides. Applicant would be
- working under in-house pesticide applicators license.
- Operate a soil sterilizer. Mix soil for potting up plants.
- Able to tolerate varied weather conditions, including rain and summer temperatures in greenhouses and screenhouses.
- Must be willing to work one weekend day if needed, on occasion.
- Ability to lift 25lb bags of soil, fertilizer.
Rate of Pay: $13 - $15 per hour, depending on experience.
Work Hours: 20 hours per week (0.5FTE), Monday – Friday.Applicants should email Dr. Choaa El-Mohtar at mohtarc@ufl.edu.