A postdoctoral research position is available in the Lennon Lab at Michigan State Universitys W.K. Kellogg Biological Station (KBS). Applicants may propose their own research or collaborate on one of the ongoing projects in the lab that focuses on microbial dormancy, functional traits and microbial biodiversity, resource subsidies in aquatic food webs, the ecology and evolution of virus-bacteria interactions, and the evolutionary ecology of plant-soil feedbacks. For more details on the research conducted in the Lennon Lab see http://microbes.kbs.msu.edu.
The primary responsibility of the postdoc will be to develop a new project or take the lead on one of the above-mentioned existing projects. This will include implementation of experiments, data analysis, and manuscript preparation. The postdoc will be in residence at KBS (http://www.kbs.msu.edu/), which has an excellent infrastructure for conducting microbial, evolutionary, community, and ecosystem ecology. The postdoc will also have the opportunity to collaborate with people in the Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics (www.mmg.msu.edu); the Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior Program (www.eebb.msu.edu); and the KBS Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site (www.lter.kbs.msu.edu). Highly qualified applicants will have experience in ecological and evolutionary theory; PCR-based microbial analyses, including phylogenetic and metagenomic analyses; quantitative methods, including statistics, simulation modeling, and bioinformatics; microbial physiology, including culture-based approaches; and fieldwork in aquatic and/or terrestrial ecosystems. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, Microbiology or a related field. Two years of funding is available. The position is available immediately, although the start date is somewhat flexible. Interested parties should email a cover letter explaining why they are interested in the position, a CV, and a brief statement of research interests to Jay Lennon (lenno...@msu.edu). Applications will be evaluated as they are received and will continue until the position has been filled.
