GW4 DTP PhD opportunity in polar environmental microbiology

 Dear all,

 

Interested in polar microbiology? We are currently advertising a PhD project as part of the GW4 Doctoral Training Program on diversity and ecology of fungi and protists in Antarctic and Arctic freshwater ecosystems. The project will be based at the Natural History Museum Life Science Department, Bristol University, and CEFAS: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/courses-and-students/phd-diversity-and-ecological-function-of-fungi-and-protists-in-Antarctic-and-Arctic-freshwater-ecosystems.html

 

This PhD project aims to perform a comprehensive environmental DNA diversity assessment of fungi and protists in lakes, meltwater ponds and streams across the Arctic and Antarctic, and characterise phylogenetic and biogeography relationships, and evaluate the relative importance of nutritional roles (heterotrophs: grazers, predators, parasites, symbioses) and autotrophs, and microbial consortia/biofilms in freshwater microbial mat ecosystems in the Polar regions.

 

https://nercgw4plus.ac.uk/project/diversity-and-ecological-function-of-fungi-and-protists-in-antarctic-and-arctic-freshwater-ecosystems/

 

Best wishes,

Anne

 

 

Dr. Anne D. Jungblut

Research Scientist

Life Sciences Department

The Natural History Museum

Cromwell Road

London SW7 5BD

 

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7942 5285