IRS26256 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Sorghum Breeding (Internationally recruited)
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The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) seeks a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Associate Breeder) to support the sorghum breeding program, with a strong focus on rapid cycling genomic selection (RCGS), sparse testing, and breeding pipeline integration. The position will play a strategic role in working with partners across East and Southern Africa (ESA), particularly within the Africa Dryland Crops Improvement Network (ADCIN), to implement innovations in regional breeding pipelines. The successful candidate will provide hands-on technical leadership for practical breeding operations, including collaborating with quantitative geneticists for population development, sparse multi-location testing, and field validation of prediction outputs.…
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