Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Chesapeake Watershed Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESU’s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Chesapeake Watershed Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. one post-doc or graduate-student to serve as Principle Investigator. Demonstrated experience in field collections for both plants and aquatic species. Demonstrated knowledge of the Illumina MiSeq and next-generation sequencing. Experience using R and other software for bioinformatics of high throughput sequence data and data visualization (for example: FASTQC, ggplot2, CLC Genomics Workbench) to tabulate, organize, summarize, and analyze and present genetic or genomic data is required. Experience with Linux and processing genomic sequence data is beneficial but not required. Familiarity with issues associated with sampling and extracting a wide variety of samples is preferred. Knowledge of issues associated diet studies, invasive aquatic species, honey bees or coral. Publication of at least one lead author manuscript is desired as well as experience working within a dynamic, multidisciplinary teams both in the field and in laboratories is a plus.