Researcher/Postdoc-equivalent Position in Environmental Science and Lake Biwa Environmental Research Shiga Prefectural Lake Biwa Environmental Science Research Center in Japan

Marion Pfeifer, Professor in Forest Landscape Restoration at Newcastle University, is recruiting two fully funded PhD students for the ERC Advanced Investigator Grant project TIF-CER: From Forests to Fields to Sustainable Rural Landscapes: A Multiscale Framework for Quantifying Biodiversity and Climate Interrelationships . The two PhD projects are based in the TROPS lab at Newcastle University and focus on: - Mechanisms driving water use in tree-based agricultural systems - Wildlife connectivity...

Funded PhD opportunities are available with The University of Edinburgh in microbial carbon cycling in soils . The research focuses on understanding the mechanisms that shape the balance of carbon in soils across different ecosystems, with an emphasis on microbial processes, fungal-bacterial interactions, and soil carbon dynamics. The work is interdisciplinary and may involve omics , stable isotope tools , organic chemistry , and modelling approaches . A forthcoming E5 DTP-funded project with Fo...

RIKEN is recruiting 2 fixed-term Researcher / Special Researcher positions in the Molecular Life Regulation Research Team at the Center for Environmental Resource Science in Wako, Saitama, Japan. The project focuses on discovery of novel biologically active molecules and elucidation of their mechanisms of action within the JST CREST program, “Creation of hyperbiotic tissues and the creation of new functions through interdisciplinary collaboration.” The lab works on logical molecular design and e...

RIKEN is recruiting a Special Research Fellow in the Plant Chemical Genetics Research Team at the Center for Environmental Resource Science in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. This is a postdoctoral-equivalent, fixed-term contract position focused on plant chemical genetics , plant hormones , crop resilience , genome editing , molecular breeding , genome analysis , and related work on wheat and Arabidopsis thaliana . The lab aims to understand plant physiological responses at the molecular or atomic l...

Colorado State University is advertising a PhD Graduate Research Assistant position in weed ecology and soil health within the Weed Research Lab and the Department of Agricultural Biology. The project is supported by a Western SARE Research and Education Grant and focuses on evaluating annual living mulches as a sustainable weed-management strategy in vegetable production systems. The student will study how living mulches suppress weeds through physical competition and possible allelopathic effe...