Graduate training
Students will be encouraged to apply principles of evolution to questions in fungal biology using approaches that take advantage of genetic, genomic, and computational tools. We focus on several model organisms in the laboratory but are open to additional approaches by independent-minded and motivated individuals.
Graduate Studies at UC Riverside
- Genetics, Genomics, & Bioinformatics Graduate Program
- Plant Pathology Graduate Program
- Plant Biology Graduate Program
- EEOB Graduate Program
- Microbiology Graduate Program
- Interdisciplinary studies through Computer Science program.
- UCR/San Diego State University Joint Doctoral program in Evolutionary Biology
Graduate Student Funding
- NSFGraduate fellowship
- DOE CSGF – DOE Computational Science Fellowship
- ASM Robert D Watkins Graduate fellowship
- NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant – DDIG
- National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship – NDSEG
- Ford Foundation Fellowships
Postdoctoral training The lab is interested in experimental or computational approaches to studying fungal evolution and welcomes those with backgrounds in areas such as experimental approaches in fungi, fungal pathogenesis, molecular biology, bioinformatics, comparative genomics, or phylogenetics.
Postdoctoral Funding
- NSF Postdoc fellowships in Biology
- NSF Minority Postdoc fellowships
- President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (UC)
- NIH opportunities including NRSA
- UC Berkeley SPO links
Undergraduate research opportunities
- Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) through CEPCEB @UCR
- MARCU* program
- Summer RISE and CAMP programs
