What you-ll do You will contribute across the full resistance-monitoring workflow-from planning global sample logistics and maintaining high-quality metadata, through to culturing pathogens, running bioassays and applying NGS molecular methods. Your work may include: * Supporting monitoring programmes for business-impactful fungal and oomycete pathogens, including *Zymoseptoria tritici*, *Botrytis cinerea*, *Plasmopara viticola*, *Phytophthora infestans*, *Alternaria* spp and more. * Coordinating the logistics of incoming and outgoing samples and biological material from across the world. * Isolating, cultivating and maintaining plant-pathogenic organisms under sterile conditions. * Performing bioassays and molecular analyses, including DNA extraction, primer design, PCR, qPCR, Sanger, NGS sequencing, and cloning. * Analysing bioassay data-such as EC50 values-and connecting phenotypic results with molecular markers and field efficacies. * Improving and standardising laboratory workflows across diverse sample types and pathogens. * Managing sample metadata and monitoring results with precision and care. * Collaborating closely with colleagues across the Resistance Research team to solve problems and move projects forward. * Working safely and in line with Health, Safety and Environment standards.
Help shape the future of crop protection. At Syngenta-s Resistance Research team in Stein, we study how plant-pathogenic fungi evolve and develop resistance to fungicides. We are looking for a curious, accountable and hands-on Research Scientist to help deliver global monitoring programmes that turn field samples into scientific insight. This is a role for someone who enjoys practical laboratory science, cares about data quality, and wants their work to support sustainable disease control in agriculture.
