Ten (10) PhD Positions in in N-Cycle Microbiology, University of Vienna, Austria (2016)

The newly funded PhD program 'Microbial Nitrogen Cycling – From Single Cells to Ecosystems' invites applications for 10 PhD positions. The program offers a unique and outstanding multidisciplinary PhD training from the three complementary areas of Microbial Ecology, Functional Genomics and Ecosystem Research. The program will be open to students who hold a Master of Science degree (or equivalent qualification) in Ecology, Biogeochemistry, Environmental Microbiology, Molecular Biology Bioinformatics or related fields. The official language of the program is English.

The following projects and supervisors are part of the program:
1) Nitrogen mining as a key mechanism of rhizosphere priming in soil (Andreas Richter)
2) Plant-microbe interaction in the nitrification process (Wolfram Weckwerth)
3) Effects of nutrients on N-fixation of Lotus spp. and Rhizobium strains (Stefanie Wienkoop)
4) Investigation of the active plant-associated diazotrophs (Dagmar Woebken)
5) Impact of N-processes in animal-bacteria associations (Silvia Bulgheresi)
6) Post-genomic characterization of Nitrospina, a major marine nitrite oxidizer (Holger Daims)
7) Relation between the age and morphology of marine snow and N cycling (Gerhard Herndl)
8) Model-based optimization of cultivation conditions for nitrifiers (Thomas Rattei)
9) Differential gene expression in ammonia oxidizing archaea (Christa Schleper)
10) Importance of cyanate as substrate for nitrifiers (Michael Wagner).

Further details:
http://www.universitypositions.eu