Please see the PhD opportunity in Soil Science at the University of
Saskatchewan below:*
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*PhD candidate in soil phosphorus and carbon cycling in hydrocarbon
degrading microbial communities. *
The remediation of complex mixtures by microorganisms involves a wide
variety of bacteria, archaea and fungi. Yet, little is known about the
different roles played by various members of these communities. As part
of a project between industrial and university partners, the University
of Saskatchewan, Department of Soil Science, is recruiting a PhD student
in soil microbiology, to identify and characterize the role and function
of select members of the soil microbial community during engineered
biostimulation.
The candidate will use the newly invented phosphate stable isotope probe
coupled with conventional stable isotope probes to identify members and
functions of communities across six different field sites. We
hypothesize that there will be organisms directly responsible for
hydrocarbon degradation, others involved in nutrient mobilization, and
others providing unknown support services. Using a combination of
expression and metabolomic approaches, the PhD candidate will unravel
how these members respond to amendment gradients, to identify optimal
biostimulation strategies in cold region soils.
The successful candidates should have some experience in soil
ecosystems, bioinformatics, ecological modelling, chemistry, and/or
microbiology.
The Department of Soil Science is Canada’s premier soil science
department with 13 faculty, over 70 graduate students and a thriving
undergraduate program in renewable resource management and environmental
soil science. The PhD candidate in soil microbiology would join an
applied research laboratory group headed by Steven Siciliano, an
NSERC/COOP Industrial Research Chair in In Situ Remediation and Risk
Assessment. The successful candidate should expect to spend substantial
time interacting with industrial partners and working at field locations
with environmental engineering teams.
If interested, candidates are asked to contact steven.sicili...@usask.ca
with a resume, a statement of interest, and a transcript. Exceptional
master’s candidates will also be considered.
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Steven Mamet, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
5E24, College of Agriculture and Bioresources
Department of Soil Science
51 Campus Drive
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8
E:steven.ma...@usask.ca
P: 306.966.6857
http://www.stevenmamet.com
http://earthwatch.org/scientific-research/our-scientists/steven-mamet
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