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Post-Doctoral Position in Biological control: Intraspecific variability and improvement of a

hymenopteran biolological control agent.


INRA Sophia Antipolis (France) is looking for a post-doctoral fellow to lead research and development
activities in biological control, on the improvement of a biocontrol agent species.
The successful candidate will work within the consortium involved in the European Commission
project FP7-IAPP Colbics (industry/academia collaboration on biological control using macroorganisms): Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (France), Universidad Politecnica de
Valencia (Spain), Universidad Catolica de Chile (Chile), Biobest (Belgium), InVivo AgroSolutions
(France), ANASAC (Chile).
The fellow will carry out a R&D programme aiming at comparing and selecting populations of a
biological control agent (Hymenoptera) to finally develop a high-performance biocontrol solution.
Main activities will consist in:
- Measuring performance-related phenotypic traits in populations to be compared.
- Setting up experimental designs to measure proxies of pest control efficiency.
- Setting a selection programme to improve performance-related phenotypic traits of the
target biological control agent.
- Advising students involved in laboratory, semi-field and field experiments.
- Analysing and summarizing results and write internal reports and scientific publications.
They will be performed in very tight collaboration with the French enterprise InVivo AgroSolutions.
Main contacts: Thibaut Malausa (tmalausa@sophia.inra.fr), Nicolas Ris (ris@sophia.inra.fr), Julien
Sguret (jseguret@invivo-group.com)
The ideal candidate will have:
- High motivation for experimental work in laboratory, semi-field and field conditions.
- Experience in ethology, phenotypic measurement in arthropods and work on live organisms.
- Experience and/or knowledge in processes of animal selection.
- Curiosity, inventiveness and observation skills.
- Motivation and skills for teamwork, at the interface between public and private sectors.
- Capacity to adapt to multi-language work environment (French, English, Spanish).
- Basics about insect taxonomy, especially Hymenoptera.
- Skills in data analysis, statistics and basic bioinformatics.
- Published works (in peer-reviewed international journals) and high skills in scientific writing.
Candidate Eligibility Criteria (following FP7-IAPP rules):
(1) PhD Degree.
(2) Full-Time Research experience between 4 and 10 years since the Master Degree (or equivalent
degree that enables to embark a PhD).
(3) Less than 12 months spent in France since August 2011.
Contractual conditions:
- Full-time contract.
- Employer: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique.
- Duration: 24 months.
- Contract starting date: From August 2014.
- Motivating salary.
- Work place: Sophia Antipolis, France (near Antibes and Nice, Southern France).
Instructions to applicants:
(1) Eligibility Check (deadline 20th of June): Applicants are asked to fill the online form at
https://enquetes.inra.fr/index.php?sid=64461&lang=en;
(2) Preliminary Selection: Eligible candidates will be asked to answer a short questionnaire and to
provide a detailed C.V., a cover letter.
(3) Final selection: up to 4 candidates will be interviewed.

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