Ebba Lab​/Student

Position Summary

This recruitment is for a student research assistant (maximum of 24 hours per week during academic terms and a maximum of 40 hours per week during academic breaks) in a program investigating Phytophthora epidemiology and management, particularly species impacting woody horticultural crops and native forests, such as Phytophthora ramorum.

• Transfer and maintain plant pathogen cultures of fungi and oomycetes.
• Inoculate plants and set up experiments.
• Collect and enter data, maintain laboratory records.
• Perform basic lab maintenance (dish washing, agar media preparation).
• Perform greenhouse tasks (fertilizing, up‑potting).
• Aide researchers in sample and data collection at remote field locations.
• Depending on performance, may have opportunity to conduct an independent project.

• Academic enrollment: high school, community college, or university, pursuing a degree or course of study.
• Academic standing: must meet standing requirements; students on suspension ineligible.
• Enrollment standards:
  • High‑school: regularly enrolled or home‑schooling.
  • Undergraduate/post‑baccalaureate: 6 credit hours/term.
  • Undergraduate international: 12 credit hours/term.
  • Graduate: 5 credit hours/term.
  • Graduate international: 9 credit hours/term.

• Ability to closely follow directions, pay attention to detail, work independently without supervision, and communicate professionally.
• Must be able to follow procedures, maintain sterile technique, and proper documentation.

• Background or interest in plant pathology, botany, forest health, horticulture, soil science, or microbiology.
• Interest in field and lab work including sterile technique and DNA extraction & PCR diagnostics.

• Work primarily in laboratory, research greenhouses, and office settings.
• Field work involves rigorous hiking and sample collection in coastal forests of Oregon and California; may involve exposure to poison oak.

Ebba Peterson, ebba.peterson

• This position requires completion of a criminal history check and self‑report of convictions as per OSU Standard 576‑055‑0000 et seq.
• We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability, protected veteran, and other protected status.