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Postdoctoral Scholar (312406) : La Jolla, CA, United States : Naturejobs. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Job Description - Postdoctoral Fellowship (74994) Job Description - Biologist Postdoc Fellow- Microbial Communities (75720) Postdoctoral Fellow - Environmental Molecular Microbiology : Berkeley, CA, United States : Naturejobs. Research Overview. Edward DeLong (Research Coordinator) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) The broad spectrum of planned research activities will be coordinated by Ed DeLong, MIT.

Research Overview

Four separate research themes have been identified (see Figure below), each with a Theme Leader to help track progress and facilitate exchange. Schematic representation of the integration between the major research themes proposed for C-MORE. The C-MORE Team: Paul F. Kemp. Kemp, P.F. 1985.

The C-MORE Team: Paul F. Kemp

Life history and productivity of the phoxocephalid amphipod Rhepoxynius abronius (Barnard). J. Paul Kemp, Department of Oceanography. Paul F.

Paul Kemp, Department of Oceanography

Kemp Specialist Professional Background. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, MIT. Microbial life has been integral to the history and function of life on Earth for over 3.5 billion years.

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, MIT

As such, microbes have evolved to be the fundamental engines that drive the cycles of energy and matter on Earth, past and present. Additionally, microbes represent the single largest source of evolutionary and biochemical diversity on the planet. Despite their significance, our understanding of the evolution and ecology, and the structure and function of natural microbial communities is limited both conceptually and technologically. Yet the potential of this vast reservoir of genetic and biochemical diversity is enormous, from the perspective of both basic knowledge creation, as well as that of synthetic applications.

Our lab is currently engaged in applying contemporary genomic technologies to dissect complex microbial assemblages. Directory. Astrobiology: Life in the Universe. Life Underground On Earth, microorganisms appear to inhabit all physical space that provides the minimum requirements for life.

Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

These include the availability of water, carbon, nutrients, and light or chemical energy. While these are generally abundant in surface or near-surface environments, their mode and distribution in the subsurface are poorly constrained. Nevertheless, it has now been shown unequivocally that archaea and bacteria inhabit deeply buried rocks and sediments where they contribute to biogeochemical cycles. All evidence suggests that these subsurface ecosystems are spatially enormous and diverse. The cross-disciplinary team from the University of Southern California (USC), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the Desert Research Institute (DRI) is developing field, laboratory, and modeling approaches aimed at detecting and characterizing microbial life in the subsurface — the intra-terrestrials. Astrobiology: Life in the Universe. Close Entire Site NAI ASTEP ASTID Exobiology Login Go!

Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astrobiology: Life in the Universe NAI ASTEP ASTID Exobiology You are here: Directory » Jan Amend Articles. Home > Fuhrman Lab. Faculty Profile. Jobs in Ecology : Earthworks : University of Southern California - Fuhrman Lab - Two Postdocs, 1 Technician, Marine Microbial Ecology. Fuhrman Lab Two Postdocs, 1 Technician, Marine Microbial Ecology The Fuhrman lab at USC in Los Angeles anticipates two multi-year postdoctoral openings and one technician opening starting after 1 July 2013.

Jobs in Ecology : Earthworks : University of Southern California - Fuhrman Lab - Two Postdocs, 1 Technician, Marine Microbial Ecology

The POSTDOCTORAL positions are in the following areas: INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PROTISTS AND BACTERIA/ARCHAEA INTERACTIONS BETWEEN VIRUSES AND BACTERIA/ARCHAEA These positions are part of a foundation-funded research project that will focus on integrating bottom-up and top-down controlling factors in the regulation of natural marine planktonic microbial communities, requiring cooperation and coordination of microbiologists with different expertise. The Protist interactions will include photosynthetic, phagotrophic, and mixotrophic protists. Salary and benefits are highly competitive.

Much of the work for this project will be done at USC's Wrigley Marine Science Center on Santa Catalina Island. Please address your materials to the following email account only: fuhrmanlabjobs@gmail.com. Protist. Protists live in almost any environment that contains liquid water.

Protist

Many protists, such as the algae, are photosynthetic and are vital primary producers in ecosystems, particularly in the ocean as part of the plankton. Other protists include pathogenic species such as the kinetoplastid Trypanosoma brucei, which causes sleeping sickness and species of the apicomplexan Plasmodium which cause malaria. Classification[edit] Historical classifications[edit] In 1938, Herbert Copeland resurrected Hogg's label, arguing that Haeckel's term protista included anucleated microbes such as bacteria, which the term "Protoctista" (literally meaning "first established beings") did not.

Some protists, sometimes called ambiregnal protists, have been considered to be both protozoa and algae, and names for these have been published under either or both of the ICN and the ICZN.[16][17] Modern classifications[edit] Biogeography. Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.

Biogeography

Organisms and biological communities vary in a highly regular fashion along geographic gradients of latitude, elevation, isolation and habitat area.[1] Knowledge of spatial variation in the numbers and types of organisms is as vital to us today as it was to our early human ancestors, as we adapt to heterogeneous but geographically predictable environments. Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program - University of California, San Francisco. 1.

Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program - University of California, San Francisco

Caffrey, P, Lynch, S.V., Flood, L., Finnan, S. and Oliynyk, M. Amphotericin biosynthesis in Streptomyces nodosus: deductions from analysis of polyketide synthase and late genes. Chemistry and Biology. 2001. 8:713-723. PMID: 11451671 2. 3. Postdoctoral Position in Microbiome Research (317418) : San Francisco, CA, United States : Naturejobs. Sapphire Energy Careers.