Doctoral student opening: priming in fungi We are looking for a doctoral student to join our group (http://rilliglab.wordpress.com/) to work on a project that is part of the Collaborative Research Center “Priming and Memory of Organismic Responses to Stress” (www.sfb973.de/). Our project is entitled “Priming in Fungi: towards understanding of priming at the level of the community”. The position is funded for approx. 4 years (until 30.06.2020).
For this position we are looking for a candidate who will carry out the empirical work of this coupled empirical-modeling project. This experimental work will be carried out with saprobic soil fungi with a focus on temperature stress and priming. The compexity of experiments covers single-isolate studies, studies using pairs of fungi, and experiments using entire fungal communities. Candidates need to have a completed MSc or equivalent in mycology, microbiology, ecology or related field. Candidates ideally should: - have excellent communication skills - have experience with the planning and execution of experiments - have excellent statistics skills (using R) - be interested in interacting with modelers - have background in microbiology and be familiar with sterile work Send complete application materials (cv, letter of application, scans of diploma) until 01.08.2016 mentioning Rillig-sfb973 preferably in one single pdf per E-Mail to Prof. Dr. Matthias Rillig: [email protected] or alternatively by mail to: Freie Universität Berlin Fachbereich Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie Institut für Biologie AG Ökologie Herrn Prof. Dr. Matthias Rillig Altensteinstr. 6 D-14195 Berlin (Dahlem)
