Fwd: Graduate Position: UniArizona.WildAnimalMicrobiomes

[Ellen Hostert]

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From: <evo...@evol.biology.mcmaster.ca>
Date: Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Subject: Graduate Position: UniArizona.WildAnimalMicrobiomes
To: <ehos...@maine.edu>

Subject:Graduate Positions:UArizona.WildAnimalMicrobiomes.

PI Lauren Petrullo is recruiting prospective MS and PhD students to join
our research group in Fall 2026. Our lab works on understanding how wild
animals respond to challenges and changes in their environments. We use
physiological, genomic, and microbial approaches to uncover proximate
mechanisms that mediate animal responses to change, with a particular
focus on host-microbial ecology. We are also broadly interested in
maternal effects and life history plasticity, and combining theory and
methods from across psychology, animal behavior, evolutionary biology,
and ecology to elucidate adaptive strategies in responses to stress.

Our group is highly collaborative and includes members at multiple
different career stages. We are generally excited by big picture questions
in ecology and evolution. Students typically engage in a combination
of fieldwork, wet lab work, dry lab work (i.e., bioinformatics) and
multi-level mentorship. Students will be part of the graduate program
in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona in
Tucson, Arizona.

Application deadline is Dec 1, 2025. For more information and any
questions email Lauren Petrullo at laurenp...@arizona.edu. More info
here: https://www.laurenapetrullo.com.


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University of Maine at Machias
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