As part of a campus-wide strategic faculty hiring initiative in the emerging research area of climate science and sustainability, the Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology at Iowa State University (https://www.gdcb.iastate.edu/) seeks to hire an assistant professor in Plant Systems Biology. The applicant is expected to use modern genetic and genomics approaches such as genome editing, single-cell RNA-seq, multi-omics, computational modeling, network analysis and/or predictive phenomics. Research topics may include but are not limited to understanding how plants respond to abiotic stresses such as drought, heat, cold, and/or biotic stresses such as bacterial, fungal and insect challenges, plant signaling networks, and a long-term goal of developin