Graduate student opportunities Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, Kellogg Biological Station (KBS)
Opportunities are available for graduate studies in the Microbial Ecology Laboratory at Michigan State Universitys Kellogg Biological Station. Our lab addresses ecological and evolutionary questions using laboratory cultures, field experimentation, simulation modeling, molecular microbiology, and environmental sensor technology. For example, current funding from NSF and USDA supports the following research topics: resource subsidies and aquatic ecosystem stability, microbial traits and trade-offs along environmental gradients, and co-adaptation of soil microbes and plants to environmental stress. See our lab website for a research overview and list of publications: http://microbes.kbs.msu.edu/ Students may apply for admission through the Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics (MMG; www.mmg.msu.edu/) or Plant Biology (www.plantbiology.msu.edu/). Typically, students are in residence on the main campus in East Lansing during their first year or two. During the summers and subsequent academic years, students are in residence at KBS. KBS has an exciting and supportive academic environment, hosts an LTER site (http://lter.kbs.msu.edu/), and is equipped with state-of-the-art resources for conducting ecological, microbiological, and molecular research. See the KBS website for more details: www.kbs.msu.edu/. In addition to affiliations with KBS and MMG, students will have the opportunity to be apart of the interdisciplinary graduate program in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, & Behavior (www.msu.edu/~eebb/). Students will be financially supported through a combination of teaching assistantships, research assistantships, and university fellowships. In addition, there are potential funding opportunities associated with an NSF-funded GK-12 program at KBS (www.kbs.msu.edu/k12/) and DOE supported research on the sustainability of bioenergy production systems (see www.greatlakesbioenergy.org/). Interested students should send a CV/resume, a brief description of past research experience and future research interests, and GRE scores (if available) to Jay Lennon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
