Graduate Student Openings: MS, PhD

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Applications are invited from highly motivated graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D.) to join the Pollination and Plant Reproduction Lab now being set up at Colorado State University. Specific projects are negotiable but will address questions concerning plant reproductive responses to abiotic stress, managed pollinators, including honeybees, bumblebees etc., and their health, pollination efficacy, pollinator behavior and management of pollinator habitats. The diversity of projects will provide opportunities for students to develop wide ranging skills from molecular biology to pollinator management and sustainable agro-ecosystem. Successful candidates are expected to spend significant amounts of time working in crop fields monitoring plant responses, pollinator behavior and other activities. The projects will involve collaborating with plant biologists, entomologists, ecologists and extension personnel. Interested candidates will have a background in agriculture or ecology and evolutionary biology with a love for bees and fieldwork. Some funding may be available and students will be
encouraged to actively seek independent funding.
 Those interested are strongly encouraged to contact Arathi Seshadri (ara...@colostate.edu) with a preliminary application (CV, unofficial
transcripts, GRE scores, contact information for three references.

Additional information will be available on the lab website coming up soon.

Candidates should apply to the graduate program at the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences (http://soilcrop.agsci.colostate.edu/)in order to be considered. Please check the following page for application deadline and other details
http://graduateschool.colostate.edu/prospective-students/apply/

Contact:
Arathi Seshadri (H.S. Arathi)
Assistant professor
Department of Soil & Crop Sciences
C 138 Plant Sciences Building, 1170 Campus Delivery
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80525
Email: ara...@colostate.edu