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Responsibilities or duties

• Optimize, and validate tissue culture cassava protocols
• Conduct experiments on cassava tissue culture
• Ensure multiplication of disease-free, true-to-type of cassava planting materials in aseptic conditions
• Ensure proper labelling, storage, and waste management
• Maintain cassava mother stock and in vitro cultures
• Ensure sterilization, contamination control, and quality standards
• Maintain equipment, reagents, and laboratory records
• Train technicians, students, and interns in cassava tissue culture techniques
• Ensure compliance SOPs, biosafety and phytosanitary regulations
• Data analysis and preparation of technical reports
• Ensure acclimatization, weaning and handling glasshouse experiments of cassava
• Support scale-up of cassava planting materials for research.
• Support laboratory inventory management
• Undertake any other duties assigned by his/her supervisor

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Level:6.IV

Post:1

Under Contract

Exams to be conducted: 1:PsychometricTest 2:Written 3:Oral

• Optimize, and validate tissue culture cassava protocols
• Conduct experiments on cassava tissue culture
• Ensure multiplication of disease-free, true-to-type of cassava planting materials in aseptic conditions
• Ensure proper labelling, storage, and waste management
• Maintain cassava mother stock and in vitro cultures
• Ensure sterilization, contamination control, and quality standards
• Maintain equipment, reagents, and laboratory records
• Train technicians, students, and interns in cassava tissue culture techniques
• Ensure compliance SOPs, biosafety and phytosanitary regulations
• Data analysis and preparation of technical reports
• Ensure acclimatization, weaning and handling glasshouse experiments of cassava
• Support scale-up of cassava planting materials for research.
• Support laboratory inventory management
• Undertake any other duties assigned by his/her supervisor