Available positions:
Postdoctoral position in Fungal Metal Adaptation
The Branco lab and the Liao lab at the Water and Soil Sciences Department at the University of Florida are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to contribute to a new NSF-funded project on the evolution of metal tolerance in mycorrhizal fungi and its impact on plant partner health and survival. The study will use a combination of field work, reciprocal transplant experiments,
physiological measurements, and genetic and genomic approaches to investigate metal tolerance in Suillus spp. and its role in partner tree establishment. Full ad here.
Graduate student positions in Fungal Environmental Adaptation
The Branco Lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at University of Colorado Denver is recruiting motivated graduate students to study the ecology and evolution of adaptation in fungi. The work will focus on determining patterns of fungal diversity in inhospitable environments, as well as the physiological and genetic basis of fungal environmental adaptation in target species.
If interested, send a CV and a short statement explaining your interest in the position to Sara Branco (sara.branco@ucdenver.edu).