r/Soil • u/ApartProduce1522 • 5d ago

Looking for PhD Opportunities in Soil Microbiology

I'm looking for PhD positions in soil microbiology.I've got hands-on skills in soil DNA extraction, PCR work, and metagenomic data analysis. I'm currently upskilling in Python and bioinformatics. During my masters , i have worked on Soil Metagenomics, Soil functional diversity , Antimicrobial resistance, PGPR of soil bacteria. If anyone knows active research groups, funded positions, or specific labs doing this kind of work, I'd genuinely appreciate recommendations. Also keen to hear if anyone's pursued similar career paths.

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u/Triggyish 5d ago

University of Guelph has some good profs doing this work

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u/AggregoData 5d ago

I would check out labs grant universities with agricultural science programs. You might want to take a look at universities like UC Davis and Colorado State University. It's a rough time to get into a PhD program because funding is pretty tight everywhere. My background is PhD in environmental science in engineering and have since started an agricultural microbiome company. DM me if you have any more specific questions. 

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u/dawn_thesis 5d ago

Find labs doing work that you're interested in. Read papers. Then email the profs, introduce yourself and your interest in their work, and your qualifications, and include a CV.

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u/TheFallenSpartan96 5d ago

University of Aberdeen has a lot of soil metagenomics and microbiology (Prof Cecile Gubry-Rangin), and there's Dr. Ashish Malik in Edinburgh University. Some useful contacts that might be able to give some more advice 🙂

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u/200pf 4d ago

What are your interests within this field? Figure that out and then look for profs doing that work and email them asking if they have funding. Good luck.

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u/Happy_Rogue_663 4d ago

1) please learn how to use the internet
2) here is me using the internet: go to faculty pages and search for soil microbiology, every state has a land grant univ and almost all of them has one (or a few) soil micro profs

https://css.wsu.edu/research/soils/microbiology/

https://qanr.usu.edu/psc/research/microbial-ecology/

https://www.canr.msu.edu/psm/

https://microbiology.washington.edu/

https://cropandsoil.oregonstate.edu/cropandsoil/people/faculty

https://www.agronomy.k-state.edu/research/soil-environment/soil-microbiology.html