The Mooney laboratory at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs is recruiting a MSc student interested in plant-insect interactions. The fully funded project will explore the impacts of warming temperatures on the integrated responses of soil microbes, host plants, and the ant-aphid mutualism. This project is in collaboration with Dr. Kate Becklin at Syracuse University and Dr. Christie Bahlai at Kent State University. Fieldwork will take place at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (https://www.rmbl.org/) and the MSc will be completed through the Biology Department at UCCS.

The award covers tuition at UCCS, housing and fees at RMBL, and provides a research assistantship for summers 2025 and 2026.  Additional financial support is possible through the academic year if the MSc student takes part as a teaching assistant for introductory biology laboratories at UCCS.

Interested students should send an email to Dr. Mooney (emooney@uccs.edu) describing their research interests, include your Academic CV, and attach a copy of their unofficial undergraduate transcripts. Additional information on the MSc program at UCCS can be found here:

Graduate school application deadline is December 15, 2024