Graduate Student Assistantships for Fall 2009

Graduate Research and Teaching Assistantships Available

The Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management (BSPM) at Colorado State University has several graduate student research and teaching assistantships available in fields ranging from ecology to genomics. Projects concentrate on insects, plants (including weeds) or plant pathogens and the focus ranges from the molecular to the ecosystem level. Faculty seeking students and the general research areas are listed below.

Lou Bjostad (louis.bjostad@colostate.edu): Natural products chemistry in agriculture
Cini Brown (cynthia.s.brown@colostate.edu): Invasive plants range limits and expansion, the role of plant community and ecosystem restoration in invasive plant control
Stephen Chisholm (chisholm@colostate.edu): Molecular host-microbe interactions
Boris Kondratieff (boris.kondratieff@colostate.edu): Insect biodiversity
Andrew Norton (apnorton@lamar.colostate.edu): Plant-insect interactions, biological control of weeds
John McKay (j.mckay@colostate.edu): Evolution of plant genomes, physiology and genomics of drought adaptation, drought adaptation of emerging biofuels crops
Paul Ode (paul.ode@colostate.edu): Parasitoid behavioral ecology, ecology of multitrophic interactions
Paul Opler (paul.opler@colostate.edu): Lepidoptera systematics, taxonomy and ecology
Frank Peairs (frank.peairs@colostate.edu): Insect pest management

Students can enter through BSPM or through the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology.  Join the outstanding students and faculty at Colorado State University! See us at:

http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/bspm/
http://www.ecology.colostate.edu/
http://www.plantbiology.colostate.edu/

For more information and application instructions, please email our Graduate Student Coordinator, Janet Dill (dillj@lamar.colostate.edu) and the individual faculty listed above.

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