The Laboratory Administrator manages day-to-day activities of the Fungal Genetics Stock Center (FGSC) and Leslie Lab. They will ensure that FGSC is responsive to orders and external requests. The employee will oversee, the fugal stock, records, maintain budgets and ensure equipment and supplies are properly stocked and maintained. They will advise others on experimental design.
Duties will include:
- Manage FGSC order for strains and reagents.
- Manage accounts for the FGSC and Leslie Lab.
- Manage FGSC database and website.
- Advise customers on correct strains/reagents to use for particular experiments and add new strains to the FGSC collection.
- Routine upkeep of strains, equipment and prepare laboratory reagents and materials.
In the Department of Plant Pathology we learn how plants and pathogens interact and how the environment affects that interaction. We modify plants so they can fight diseases and improve yield and quality. We transfer genes from wild plants to crop plants to increase genetic diversity.
We study bacteria, fungi, nematodes and viruses; bioinformatics, biological control, biotechnology, disease diagnosis and management, disease physiology, ecology and epidemiology, host and microbial genetics and cytogenetics, modeling/statistics, molecular genetics, and molecular plant-microbe interactions.
The Fungal Genetics Stock Center is a living microbe collection and a research resource repository that was established in 1960 and moved to Kansas State in November 2014, when it joined the Department of Plant Pathology. We primarily serve the fungal genetics research community by providing strains and other material with a simple MTA and low fees and are now leading the transition into the genome‐enabled microbiology era with new approaches to material and information resource integration and management.
This position is On-site.
All employees must reside in the United States when they begin working to comply with state law. K-State is unable to provide remote or hybrid work opportunities for residents of the state of Idaho.
Minimum Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Sponsorship eligibility:
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. on an ongoing basis without sponsorship
Please submit the following documents:
Applications close on: December 18, 2026
$24.04 - $33.65
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