Graduate Student and Post-doctoral Opportunities

Currently-available opportunities

C-MORE EDventures

C-MORE EDventures is venture capital for educational activities. All C-MORE personnel are encouraged to propose projects that address C-MORE's education goals. Preference will be given to projects that bridge research and education; are based at C-MORE partner institutions; foster partnerships; address C-MORE’s diversity goals; and are innovative and may lead to external funding (“proof-of-concept”). To learn more about how to apply, please visit the C-MORE EDventures web page.

ARB workshop materials available

Photo of ARB workshop The materials available here were designed for a 2-day workshop entitled “Analysis of microbial sequence data using ARB”; these workshops were held in July (WHOI) and August (UH Manoa) 2009 to provide participants with the skills necessary to perform phylogenetic analyses on nucleotide sequences from microorganisms. The materials include a course syllabus, lectures, and a set of tutorials with a practice dataset used during the course. The materials focus on the use of the software programs Sequencher, a program for viewing and edit raw sequence data and ARB, a program for sequence data management, alignments and phylogenetic analyses.

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Research Experience for Undergraduates and Graduates (OHH REU/G)

Oceans and Human Health Center, Univ. of Miami

Over the past decade, there has been increasing recognition that the ocean and the ocean-land interface are the sources of organisms and chemicals that can profoundly affect human health. The University of Miami’s NSF-NIEHS Oceans and Human Health (OHH) Center involves the interactions between oceanographic and biomedical scientists. The OHH Center also has an Annual Research Experience for Undergraduates & Graduates (REU/G) for 2 students (a preference is given to undergraduates and masters students.)

For details, download the announcement PDF; you can also download the application as a PDF or as a.doc. All items due to Julie Hollenbeck by May 1, 2009.

Summer Course on Microbial Oceanography

Agouron web image C-MORE is pleased to offer an international summer course “Microbial Oceanography: Genomes to Biomes.” The course is sponsored by the Agouron Institute and is offered to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers. The course will explore the dynamic and fundamental role marine microbes play in shaping ocean ecology and global biogeochemistry.

The course has now been offered in 2006, 2007, and 2008; the most recent summer course was held June 08 to July 17, 2009. It is based at the University of Hawai‘i in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. Participation is limited to approximately 16 students. Learn more about it at the Summer Course web site.