- East Lansing, Michigan, United States
- Full-time
- $63K–$63K per year
Lead independent research in plant systematics and phylogenomics, develop projects, analyze data, and publish findings.
Compensation
The annual salary is approximately $63,000, plus MSU benefits.
Responsibilities
- Develop and carry out research drawing on existing lab collections and datasets and herbarium specimens, with potential opportunities for targeted fieldwork.
- Generate and analyze molecular data, including DNA/RNA isolation, sequencing library preparation and target enrichment, sequence processing and assembly, and phylogenomic, population genomic, and comparative analyses.
- Lead manuscript preparation and communicate findings through publications and presentations.
- Contribute to collaborative lab and herbarium projects, with opportunities for student mentoring.
Requirements
- Doctorate in Botany, plant systematics, evolutionary biology or related field
- Nice to have: inference of hybridization or introgression
- Nice to have: phylogenetic comparative methods
- Nice to have: plant taxonomy
- Nice to have: floristics