Senior Scientist

Position: Senior Scientist I
Job Description

At Syngenta, our goal is to build the most collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture, providing top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers' success. To support this mission, Syngenta's Regulatory Affairs Team is seeking a Senior Scientist in Durham, NC. This role will be responsible for establishing multiple plant nematode species: cyst nematode, root-knot nematode, and lesion nematode, using soil and sterile cultures.

Lead and support trait discovery and validation projects by conducting hands-on experiments, collaborating with key experts and functions both within and outside of Syngenta.

Accountabilities:

* Design and implement experiments to evaluate lead performance against CN/RKN/LN.

* Execute experiments with high quality and precision.

* Possess deep knowledge and extensive experience through training and work in conducting crop pathology experiments, such as collecting inoculum, culturing inoculum at appropriate scales, inoculation, and disease susceptibility/tolerance/resistance ratings in lab, greenhouse (GH), and field environments.

* Develop correlations of disease susceptibility/tolerance/resistance ratings in different environments, as required by the project.

* Create and test hypotheses and make recommendations as a crop pathology expert.

* Be the focal point of creating, internalizing, and implementing plant pathology techniques and knowledge that enable the organization to meet the needs of growers.

* Seek out, identify, communicate, and encourage examples of best practice from internal and external sources of information.