Job Description
Position Summary
Michigan State University's Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences seeks a highly motivated Post-doctoral Research Scholar to support a USDA-NIFA and MSU funded project investigating how crop bacteriomes determine plant growth traits, nitrogen fixation, and yield. This is a12-month, full-time research appointment, renewable annually based on performance and funding.
Duties and Responsibilities:
The Postdoctoral Research Scholar will contribute to all major components of the funded projects, including but not limited to:
+ Field and greenhouse research across diverse environments
+ Leadership in Lab, including personnel and equipment
+ Microbiome sequencing (16S/ITS), genomics, shotgun metagenomics, and transcriptomics Multivariate and statistical modeling of bacteriome–trait relationships; Bacteriome GWAS
+ Manuscripts, presentations, and mentoring students
+ Coordinating sample processing of s...
Michigan State University's Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences seeks a highly motivated Post-doctoral Research Scholar to support a USDA-NIFA and MSU funded project investigating how crop bacteriomes determine plant growth traits, nitrogen fixation, and yield. This is a12-month, full-time research appointment, renewable annually based on performance and funding.
Duties and Responsibilities:
The Postdoctoral Research Scholar will contribute to all major components of the funded projects, including but not limited to:
+ Field and greenhouse research across diverse environments
+ Leadership in Lab, including personnel and equipment
+ Microbiome sequencing (16S/ITS), genomics, shotgun metagenomics, and transcriptomics Multivariate and statistical modeling of bacteriome–trait relationships; Bacteriome GWAS
+ Manuscripts, presentations, and mentoring students
+ Coordinating sample processing of s...