Postdoc in Plant Biochemistry

Opportunity summary

Employment type: FULLTIME. The Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences invites applicants for a postdoc fellowship in plant biochemistry, financed by a grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation. The start date is 1 October 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. The employment is for 18 months. The project The use of fertilizers in current agricultural systems results in The field of biological nitrification inhibitors (BNIs) has gained increasing attention over the past decades as a promising strategy to mitigate fertilizer-derived greenhouse gas emissions in the global north and improve yields with reduced nitrogen inputs in the global south. Yet, despite more than 20 years of research, only a limited number of BNI compounds have been identified and characterized, and their precise mode of action remains largely unknown [8]. This lack of mechanistic insight hampers the integration of BNI traits into breeding programs. The project capitalizes on a newly developed pipeline for identification of new BNI compounds with comparable efficiency to the current marketed synthetic nitrification inhibitors. This project combines bioinformatics, biochemistry and molecular biology to elucidate missing biosynthetic enzymes to reconstruct complete metabolic pathways in yeast for bioproduction of biological nitrification inhibitors1 …

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