Apply Now for PhD fellowship in phyllosphere fungal interactions in Denmark in 2020

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science at University of Copenhagen is offering a PhD scholarship in phyllosphere fungal interactions commencing with start 1 January 2021, or as soon as possible thereafter.
The candidate will identify and functionally characterize the fungal part of the wheat leaf microbiome. Dependent on the chosen candidate interests and competencies the work can further focus on fungal-fungal, fungal-plant or fungal-bacterial interactions, functional traits, community ecology or fungal metabolomics or genomics. The candidate should expect to work with methodologies as meta-barcoding/genomics, growth and physiology/metabolome experiments and various fungal-plant assays.

Opportunity Focus Areas:
– Plant-associated microbiomes
– Plant-microbe interactions
– Plant pathology
– Experimental/molecular fungal biology
– Fungal genomics and gene annotations
– Fungal community ecology