Offer Description
Background of the recruitment and description of the project
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https://www.agr.hokudai.ac.jp/en
Work content and job description
[Immediately after hiring] Duties concerning education and research at the Research Faculty of Agriculture, Graduate School of Agriculture and School of Agriculture
[Scope of Change] Duties as determined by the University
Assigned department: Existing departments
Work location
Address
060-8589 Hokkaido Kita 9 Nishi 9, Kita-ku, Sapporo
Number of hired
Number of hired: 1 person(s)
Hiring date: 2027-04-01
Starting date: 2027-04-01
Additional Information
Benefits
[Compensation]
- Leading Researcher (R4)
- Annual salary: 7 million yen - 10 million yen
- Working hours: 08:30-17:00
- Break time: 12:15-13:00
- Holidays: Saturdays, Sundays, holidays stipulated in the Law Concerning National Holidays, December 29-January 3, and other days designated by the university
- Overtime and other explanations: Discretionary Labor System for Professional Work or Fixed Working Hour System based on agreement
- Determined in accordance with the Hokkaido University Working Hours, Break Times, Holidays and Leave Rules
- [For Discretionary Labor System for Professional Work] The work hours per day are deemed as 7 hours and 45 minutes
- [For Fixed Working Hour System] Work hours: 8:30 to 17:00; Break time: 12:15 to 13:00; Overtime work: Applicable
Employment type: Regular employee
Contract period: Tenured
Probationary period: Probationary period present
Probationary period description: Three months
[Various systems]
- Retirement allowances: available
- Transportation expenses: available
- Retirement age: available
[Insurance]
- Employees' Health Insurance: available
- Employees' Pension Insurance: available
- Worker's accident insurance: available
- Employment insurance: available
[Measures for preventing passive smoking at the workplace]
No smoking on campus except for the designated outside smoking areas
[Supplementary explanation of compensation]
Support for female faculty members:
To support faculty members, there is a system in place to subsidize the employment costs of technical assistants (see Appendix 4).
Additional comments
Hokkaido University is actively promoting both education and research activities under the concept of advancing diversity and inclusion. In addition, Hokkaido University is actively supporting to realize a well work-life-balance and is providing ideal environments for those people who would like to show their full potentials. The detail of the activity in Hokkaido University can be found in Hokkaido University Homepage.
Appendix
1. The Laboratory of Pathogen-Plant Interactions constitutes the Research Group of Agrobiology and Bioresources. The research group consists of ten laboratories, namely, Crop Science, Crop Physiology, Plant Pathology, Horticultural Science, Ornamental Plants and Landscape Architecture, Animal Ecology, Systematic Entomology, Plant Genetics and Evolution, Cell Biology and Manipulation, and Pathogen-Plant Interactions. These laboratories conduct education and research in the field of agrobiology and bioresources in cooperation with each other.
2. The successful applicant will partly or fully give the lectures listed below, for which the Laboratory of Pathogen-Plant Interactions is responsible. The laboratory participates in “the Global Education Program for AgriScience Frontiers” and also provides education only in English.
(1) Subjects in the Graduate School of Agriculture: Advanced General Agricultural Plant Science, Advanced Seminar on Agricultural Plant Science, Advanced Biotechnology, Advanced Seminar on Biotechnology, Study on Agricultural Science I・II, Seminar on Agricultural Science I・II, and others.
(2) Subjects in the School of Agriculture: Plant Disease Etiology, Plant Virology, Laboratory Work on Agrobiology and Bioresources I・II, Experiments in Biology and Chemistry I・II, Biological Training, Seminar on Agrobiology and Bioresources I・II・III・IV, Graduation Thesis, and others.
(3) Subjects in general education: Freshman Seminar and others.
3. The Laboratory of Pathogen-Plant Interactions conducts education and research on plant viruses and voroids. In particular, the research focuses on elucidating the roles of their genome structures and replication mechanisms in pathogenicity, their effects on host gene expression, and the molecular mechanisms underlying disease severity and the development of resistance in host plants. Furthermore, based on these research findings, the laboratory is engaged in the development of diagnostic and disease management technologies for viral and viroid diseases, as well as in their applications in biotechnology.
4. The Diversity and Inclusion Promotion Headquarters of our university is implementing various initiatives in addition to the project to subsidize the employment costs of technical assistants as shown in the attached document.
Work Location(s)
Number of offers available: 1
Company/Institute: Hokkaido University
Country: Japan
City: Hokkaido
Contact
City: Hokkaido
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