We are looking for a graduate student to join our research group beginning in fall 2019. The student would develop an independent research focus in line with ongoing lab projects. We are exploring how plant traits relate to community structure and function of plant-associated microbes using culturing and next generation sequencing techniques and consequences of these interactions for forest carbon cycling in USA and Australia as climate changes. The student would join an interactive lab group (http://www.phylodiversity.net/azanne/) that broadly focuses on carbon cycling, plant, microbe and termite structure and function, community ecology, and evolutionary ecology, both in the temperate and tropical systems. The graduate work will be completed at George Washington University. Washington, DC is a dynamic city with a wealth of ecologists and evolutionary biologists. We have strong links to area institutions, including the Smithsonian. George Washington University is located in the heart of DC, with easy access to numerous science, conservation, and policy based institutions. If you are interested in working with us, please send an email to me (Amy Zanne: aeza...@gmail.com) with brief details about your GPA, GRE, research interests, experience, and why you want to go to graduate school. For information about applying to the program, go to the George Washington University, Department of Biological Sciences website (https://biology.columbian.gwu.edu/apply-now). The application deadline is 1 December 2018. I am also happy to answer any further questions you might have.
