Opportunities

Open Positions

1. Postdoctoral Researcher (2-year). Project: “The energetic costs of new genes and cellular complexity.” The ideal postdoctoral researcher should have experience and/or interest in measuring quantitative proteomes through mass spectrometry and ribosome profiling or ribo-seq. These methods will be applied to experimentally evolved populations as well as phylogenetically disparate unicells.
2. PhD Student. Project: “The energetic costs of new genes and cellular complexity.”
3. PhD Student. Project: “The physiology and metabolism of common and rare photosymbiotic associations.”

To apply, please send a CV and 1-2-page cover letter to samunozg{at}purdue[dot]edu

Whether you are an undergraduate student, graduate student, or postdoctoral researcher, there are many opporunities to fund your research, training, and career. Take advantage of them! I am happy to work with you on putting together applications for these funding opportunities.

Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology
• HFSP Long-Term Fellowships
• Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Award
• HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program
• NASA Postdoctoral Program
  • Exobiology - Evolution of Advanced Life
  • Exobiology - Early Evolution of Life and the Biosphere
• Pew Latin American Fellows
• EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship (If you are from an EMBC Member State)
• (Global) Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship

Graduate Student Fellowships

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

Small grants

• Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research (GIAR)

Purdue grants/fellowships

• Lyndsey Fellowship (EEB-BIO)
• Waser EEB Assistantships (EEB-BIO)
• Center for Plant Biology Travel Award (CPB)
• Systems Fellows Program
• Graduate Bridge Program
• Purdue Postdoc Travel Award
• Purdue University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund