Wageningen University & Research
The candidate will be based within the Laboratory of Plant Physiology, part of Wageningen University, and will work closely with metabolomics experts at the Business Unit Bioscience, part of Wageningen Plant Research.
Wageningen University & Research delivering a substantial contribution to the quality of life. That's our focus - each and every day. Within our domain of good and safe food & food production, food security and a healthy living environment, we search for answers to issues affecting society: sustainable food production, climate change and alternative energy. Of course, we don't do this alone. Every day, 5000 people work on 'the quality of life', turning ideas into reality, on a global scale.
Laboratory of Plant Physiology works on advancing our knowledge of how plants function and react to their environment. We work together with the Business Unit Bioscience where we use advanced genetic, genomic and metabolomic approaches to define and decipher how, when and where plants make important metabolites. We are especially interested in which metabolites contribute most to plant quality - be that related to e.g. food quality, disease resistance, seed longevity etc etc. We are a group of enthusiastic and motivated researchers and students with many collaborations with other academic and industrial partners.
Business unit Bioscience The BU Bioscience hosts a major suite of -omics facilities including 8 GC and LC Mass Spectrometry platforms for performing metabolomics analyses. We have all the required supplementary support (software, data management facilities, data mining tools) to facilitate an efficient and state-of-the-art analytical platform for designing and applying metabolomics approaches. (see
www.metabolomics.nl)