http://www.beasleywildlifelab.srel.uga.edu/index.html

Available Projects: 1) Ecology and conservation of African apex carnivores at the interface of protected areas and human-dominated landscapes; 2) Effects of the Chernobyl and Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accidents on wildlife and development of improved dosimetry for estimating radiation dose to free-ranging wildlife; 3) Ecology and management of invasive wild pigs; 4) Effects of anthropogenic contaminants on wildlife health.

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Mentoring philosophy available upon request.

https://www.biklab.org/

Available Projects: The Bik Lab currently has NSF funding for a postdoc to contribute to two significant projects focused on marine microbial eukaryotes (nematode worms and other microbial metazoan taxa), including research on bacteria/archaea as part of host-associated microbiome project aims. NSF Project #1: “Do molecular data support high endemism and divergent evolution of Antarctic marine nematodes and their host-associated microbiomes?”, OPP-2132641, National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs. NSF Project #2, "CAREER: Characterizing the phylogenetic lineages and genomic factors enabling adaptation in free-living marine nematodes", DEB-2144304, awarded by the National Science Foundation CAREER Program. Read the full description of available projects here.

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https://jebyers.ecology.uga.edu/

Available Projects: 1) Quantifying the Mechanisms that Maintain and Shift Species Boundaries in the Coastal Ocean: Computational and Database Interdisciplinary project. 2) Estuarine Disturbance Ecology: Experiment-focused project. Read the full description of available projects here.

http://cappslab.ecology.uga.edu/

Available Projects: The FFIRE postdoctoral researcher will have the opportunity to collaborate with me on existing interdisciplinary projects, but they would also have the flexibility to design their own projects in freshwater community or ecosystem ecology or freshwater conservation ecology. If it is of interest, they would have the opportunity to conduct empirical work in watersheds/ephemeral wetlands in the southeast (most likely around Athens, Atlanta, or in systems on the Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina) or in tropical systems in southern Mexico. I am collaborating with researchers at UGA who are experts in public health, engineering, geographic information systems, and crop and soil science, and am working with researchers in the public and private sector who are experts in environmental justice. I am excited to welcome applicants proposing projects that integrate these fields with aquatic ecology and conservation. I am motivated to add experts from freshwater ecology and from other fields to our research team to expand our understanding of freshwater science.

http://daphnia.ecology.uga.edu/drakelab/

Available Projects: 1) NSF - Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Preparedness; 2) NIH - Interactive model for Ebola spillover; 3) An algorithm for forecasting respiratory infections: This project aligns with ongoing activities of the Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases Forecasting Working Group. This working group is developing new models and computational workflows for predicting both seasonal and pandemic outbreaks of respiratory infections like influenza and SARS-CoV-2.

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https://edisonomics.org/

Available Projects: The Edison lab is highly collaborative, and we have several projects. All of these have a theme of metabolomics or metabolism. 1) NIH R35 - Platform for in vivo Metabolism; 2) NSF STC - Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP); 3) NSF - An Engineering Research Center for Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT); 4) NSF - Collective Behavior of Cellular Oscillators.

https://www.marygoll.com/
Available Projects: Primary funding in my laboratory is through an R35 MIRA grant for established investigators from the National Institutes of General Medicine. This funding provides the flexibility for our laboratory to broadly pursue projects in the area of chromatin regulation in the context of development and disease using zebrafish as a primary model system. Our laboratory currently has strong focal expertise in the area of heterochromatin biology. Current projects in the lab focus on several research questions: 1) we are interested in understanding the mechanisms that drive segregation of eukaryotic genomes into distinct regions of open and compacted chromatin during the window of zygotic genome activation, 2) we are broadly interested in the relationship between repressive chromatin, transposon control, and gene expression during embryonic development, 3) understanding the relationship between DNA methylation loss, DNA damage and human disease (cancer, ICF syndrome) and 4) exploring the capacity for early life exposure to environmental toxicants to disrupt heterochromatin mediated repression. Read Dr. Goll's mentoring philosophy.

https://ccrc.uga.edu/team/robert-haltiwanger/

Available Projects: The Haltiwanger laboratory investigates the structure, biosynthesis, and function of O-linked glycans on several cysteine-rich domains including Epidermal Growth Factor-like (EGF) repeats and Thrombospondin Type 1 Repeats (TSRs). 1) How does addition of O-glucose to EGF repeats affect the structure and function of fibrillin- 1 microfibrils? 2) How do CADASIL mutations affect O-glycans on NOTCH3 EGF repeats?

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http://esbg.bmb.uga.edu/

Available Projects: 1) NIGMS R35 - Mapping genome-phenome relationships in large gene families; 2) NCI U01 - Application of AI and data integration tools for protein classification and function prediction; 3) Building a Translational Informatics Network for Personalized Medicine-Based Treatment Strategies for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases. This new project, developed in collaboration with faculty at the Center for Neurological Disease Research (CNDR) at UGA, focuses on discovering new kinome-based biomarkers for neurological diseases through integrative mining of patient-derived data from the NIH AMP-PD consortium. This project offers the opportunity to train in translational neuroscience by working collaboratively with computational and wet-lab scientists within the UGA CNDR.
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https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/

Available Projects: 1) NIAID Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Response: Center for Influenza Disease and Emergence Research; 2) Computational Methods for Influenza Forecasting; 3) Using Validated Transmission Models to Inform Pertussis Vaccine Development and Policy.

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https://ccrc.uga.edu/team/breeanna-urbanowicz/

Available Projects: 1) DOE - Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI). *Includes National Lab and Interdisciplinary Collaborations; 2) DOE - Center for Plant and Microbial Carbohydrates at the University of Georgia Complex Carbohydrate Research Center. *Includes National Lab and Interdisciplinary Collaborations; 3) DOE - Functional characterization of glycosyltransferase in duckweed to enable predictive biology. *Includes National Lab and Interdisciplinary Collaborations; 4) DOE - BioPoplar: A tunable chassis for diversified bioproduct production. *Includes National Lab and Interdisciplinary Collaborations; 5) DOE - Cell-type Specific Pectins in Plant Cell Walls: Structure, Interaction and Function. *Includes National Lab and Interdisciplinary Collaborations
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