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Immediate opening is available for a recent PhD graduate (0-3 years after PhD award) to apply for a full-time postdoctoral scholar position. The biocuration would involve annotating plant metabolic, signaling and regulatory pathways for developing an online Plant Pathway database. The curator will be responsible for (1) curation of the plant pathway and networks, associated gene products and their function by exploring the scientific literature and developing computationally driven methods; (2) contributing to the development of standard operating procedures on project specific and community wide plant pathway annotation methods, (3) development and improvement of the database content and user interfaces for the online portal and (4) participating in communicating with researchers at meetings and workshops or via electronic media to improve the quality of database content, train database user groups involving researchers and students, and address user feedback. Qualified candidates should email their (1) Cover letter, (2) CV, (3) research statement and (4) list of referees to jaiswalp@science.oregonstate.edu. Job details: http://my.aspb.org/networking/apply_now.aspx?view=2&id=166592