Join Vylor—Powering the Future of Agriculture
At Vylor, we’re advancing agriculture through breakthrough science—combining elite germplasm, cutting-edge biotech, and next-generation expertise in gene editing and molecular breeding. Our portfolio includes trusted industry brands like Pioneer®, Brevant®, and Hoegemeyer®, delivering performance farmers rely on.
Join us to help scale innovation globally and shape what’s next in crop science.
We invite applications for a
Postdoctoral Research Associate
with strong expertise in plant tissue culture and regeneration to support and advance research focused on refining, optimizing, and standardizing existing plant transformation protocols. The successful candidate will work within an established transformation and regeneration platform, with primary responsibility for improving the robustness, efficiency, and reproducibility of tissue culture–based workflows in
Arica - Chile experimental Station.
Key Responsibilities
The Postdoctoral Research Associate will:
- Execute and refine plant tissue culture protocols,
including media preparation, explant handling, selection, regeneration, and acclimatization
- Systematically optimize regeneration and transformation workflows to improve consistency, efficiency, and throughput
- Evaluate existing plant transformation protocols and identify parameters affecting success rates
- Generate and maintain transgenic plants produced through established transformation pipelines
- Perform molecular validation of transformed or edited events
- Document optimized protocols suitable for internal transfer or publication
Qualifications
Required
- Extensive experience with plant tissue culture
- Demonstrated ability to regenerate whole plants from cultured tissue or explants
- Experience working within an established plant transformation pipeline
- Experience handling and analyzing transgenic plants
- Practical experience with molecular biology assays supporting transformation work
- Ph.D. in Plant
📌 Postdoctoral Research Associate (Arica)
🏢 Vylor
📍 Arica