Post Doctoral Researcher Position at Amend Lab, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

The Amend Lab at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is seeking a post-doctoral researcher to work on a National Science Foundation-funded study entitled “MIM: Using Machine Learning and a Model Watershed to Understand how Microbes Govern Food Web Architecture and Efficiency”.  We are looking for applicants with expertise in one or more of the listed areas:

• Microbial comparative genomics, metagenomics and functional analyses of microbiomes
• Ecology of host-associated symbiotic systems 
• Food web ecology

The researcher will help develop specific research questions, and experiments to understand how: 1) microbiome communities assemble among trophic levels within food webs, and 2) the mechanisms of how microbiomes impact food web efficiency and complexity. Researchers will make use of a tractable model food web microcosm/mesocosm system including microbial isolates, axenic invertebrate hosts, and will leverage genomic data to resolve microbial roles constraining transfer of energy among trophic levels. 

Start date is flexible, see https://www.dropbox.com/s/omw4qa6gz3e5tg1/U_Hawaii_Postdoc.pdf?dl=0 for more information.