NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) opportunity at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Metagenomics approach for genetic inventory of microbes to identify, quantify, document, and archive broadest spectrum of potential terrestrial contaminants during the spacecraft assembly process. The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) provides early-career and more senior scientists the opportunity to share in NASA’s mission, to reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we …

Coming soon… call for MoBE postdocs!

Just a quick announcement that the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has approved another series of “Microbiology of the Built Environment Postdoctoral Fellowships”.  See the 2014 call here. There will be three Fellowships in 2015, and another three in 2016.   The actual request for proposals (RFP) will come out and be posted on microBEnet around May …

Announcement of 2013 MoBE Postdoctoral Fellows

The Sloan Foundation has just announced their 2013 Microbiology of the Built Environment Postdoctoral Fellows.   The awards, along with the titles of the projects are below.  Congrats all! Aaron J. Prussin at Virginia Tech, co-advisors Linsey Marr and Kyle Bibby (Pittsburg)  “Bacterial and viral microbiomes of daycare centers” Anne. A. Madden at University of Colorado, …