We’re hiring a postdoc!
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The Hynson and Yuan Labs (https://smil.bio/about/) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa are seeking a highly motivated post-doctoral researcher to work on a National Science Foundation and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation-funded postdoc. The research projects will be flexible under the umbrella of fungal ecology, including topics such as identifying traits of microbiome stability and community assembly rules through manipulative experimentation, mathematical modeling of microbial community dynamics, and co-evolution of fungi with their Hawaiian endemic hosts. The postdoc will be based in Honolulu, HI at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Applicants should have expertise in one or more of the listed areas:
• Microbial ecology, with experience generating and analyzing high throughput -omics data.
• Fungal ecology and/or evolution including field and/or lab-based studies.
• Theoretical ecology and/or evolution.
Potential projects will be developed in collaboration with the incumbent postdoctoral researcher, but could include manipulative, observational and or computational experimental designs to understand: 1) fundamental traits of microbial keystone taxa and community assembly rules, 2) development of novel algebraic methods, such as networks, for identifying important microbiome members from diverse consortia, 3) examining the potential for co-evolution between Hawaiian fungi, endemic host plants and invertebrates, 4) landscape microbial ecology.
