Senior Scientist

This role is responsible for driving the discovery, development, and delivery of innovative biotech traits that provide resistance to disease through hands-on experimentation and close collaboration with experts and cross-functional teams both within and outside of Syngenta. The position establishes and optimizes high-throughput bioassays for multiple pathogens, including plant-parasitic nematodes, in both laboratory and greenhouse environments. Working collaboratively across Seeds and Crop Protection, the role integrates pathology insights into the product development pipeline to ensure traits and products are durable, broad-spectrum, and effective. By investigating host-pathogen interactions and translating scientific discoveries into actionable research and development strategies, this position plays a vital role in advancing durable disease-control solutions from early-stage research to practical applications that benefit farmers in the field.Accountabilities: Design and implement experiments to evaluate lead performance against key diseases including soybean cyst nematode from collecting inoculum, culture inoculum at appropriate scales, inoculation and disease susceptible/tolerance/resistance ratings in lab and GH environments.Innovate in new trait discovery and design to tackle business critical disease targetsDevelop correlations of disease susceptible/tolerance/resistance ratings in different environments as required by project.Create and test hypothesis and make recommendations as crop pathology expertsBe the focal point of creating, internalizing and implementing plant pathology techniques and knowledge that enable the organization to meet the needs of the growersSeek out, identify, communicate and encourage examples of best practice from internal and external sources of information