NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)

Want to join the Carini group as a postdoc? Here's a good way to make that happen!

NSF recently posted its new postdoctoral research fellowship opportunity. This is a good opportunity for postdoctoral researchers interested in our research to fund their work with us. The fellowship consists of a $70,000 stipend + $20,000 research allowance. The deadline is November 07, 2024. You must determine your eligibility with the funder. We’ll consider sponsoring a proposal if we feel it fits within the context of our current aims.

Caitlin sampling anaerobes. Photo; Deanna Rodriquez

Broadly, our group applies a “Microbial Systems Ecology” approach to learn how soil and nearshore marine sediment microbes function in the lab and the environment. We have several resources that could be used to investigate the ecology, evolution, cell biology, functional genomics, or physiology of these microbes, including:

1. a soil microbial culture collection (^_≥3,000 strains and growing)

2. Enrichments of soil nitrifying archaea

3. Enrichments of marine sediment microbes including novel bacteria and archaea (CPR, methanogens, asgard)

4. Desiccation tolerance measurements of soil microbes both across and within phylotypes

5. Anaerobic culture facilities, high-throughput flow cytometers, qPCR thermal cycler, soil processing facilities, equipment for arrayed chemostats, microplate readers, and other standard microbiology lab equipment.

Making the jump to a postdoc from a PhD can be daunting! Here are some things to consider when making the jump. If you join us, we’ll actively mentor you (here’s how). You’ll take your project (including strains and cultures) with you if you are hired into a faculty position from our group.

While we’ll consider all potential applicants, we have current needs for candidates with backgrounds in microscopy, genetics, or metagenomic analysis.

If you’re interested, please reach out to Dr. Carini directly by email with a short synopsis of your interests and why you think our lab group would be a good fit.