Phd Researcher - Halle (Saale), Deutschland - Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung UFZ

Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung UFZ

Geprüftes Unternehmen

Halle (Saale), Deutschland

vor 3 Wochen

Geschrieben von:

Lena Wagner

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Beschreibung

The UFZ

The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) with its 1,100 employees has gained an excellent reputation as an international competence centre for environmental sciences.

We are part of the largest scientific organisation in Germany, the Helmholtz association.

Our mission:
Our research seeks to find a balance between social development and the long-term protection of our natural resources.

The job

Symbiotic interactions with holobiont partners that enhance nutrient and water uptake by trees, the ectomycorrhizal fungi, can support host acclimation to changing conditions, with benefits for long-lived trees facing climate change.

There are serious gaps in our understanding of the ecological roles of ectomycorrhizal fungi at the level of inter

Your tasks

Contribution to joint samplings in the three platforms of the Research Unit
DNA, RNA and enzyme extractions of oak ectomycorrhizas and roots
Accessing fungal and bacterial communities by amplicon, and fungal and plant gene expression by RNA sequencing
Bioinformatical and statistical downstream processing of the sequencing data
Presenting and publishing of results on international conferences and in peerreviewed journals
PhD thesis

We offer

Excellent technical facilities which are without parallel
Work in interdisciplinary, multinational teams
Excellent links with national and international research networks

Profile:

A scientific University degree (Diploma/ M.Sc.) in biology, microbiology, ecology, bioinformatics, or related fields of science
Highly motivated and teamoriented
Broad interest in plantassociated microbial communities
Good statistical (preferable with R) and analysis skills
Very good oral and written communication skills in English
Travel availability
Driving licence B