A PHD POSITION IN EFFECT OF GLOBAL WARMING ON PLANT NUTRITION, ROOT GROWTH AND MICROBIOME...

Updated: over 2 years ago
Job Type: FullTime
Deadline: 07 Dec 2021

The CBGP (UPM-INIA) offers a PhD positions (FPI program) EFFECT OF GLOBAL WARMING ON PLANT NUTRITION, ROOT GROWTH AND MICROBIOME ASSOCIATION (WAROOT-µ)

The Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (CBGP, UPM-INIA), a Centre of Excellence Severo Ochoa (SO), offers a PhD student position for young, motivated scientists. This PhD student position are funded by the FPI program from the Spanish Research Agency and aim to incorporate talented doctoral students that will be supported by a 4-year contract.

What do we offer:

CBGP offers modern and fully equipped facilities to carry out state of the art research in plant molecular biology and agronomic science and a unique, stimulating work environment. Researchers enrolled under the frame of this FPI Program will be hired as PhD student’s researchers at the CBGP and if they complete their Ph.D. in three years, they will be funded for a period of 1 year as Postdoctoral researchers.

Please send your CV and a motivation letter to [email protected]  with an indication of the chosen research topic and code in the title of the email.

Project summary: In the next coming decades, we must face new challenges in crop production and food security. The increasing population, the ongoing rise in fertilizers price, and the unpredictable climate change will negatively hit crop growth and productivity. Therefore, we must develop more sustainable, environmental-friendly, and cost-efficient agriculture to increase crop production proportionally with the population demands. Besides, climate change has emerged as a new challenge that will negatively impact productivity, by strengthening the detrimental effect of abiotic stresses, such as extreme temperatures among others. In this project, we want to study the effect of combined phosphate deficiency and heat stresses on plant nutrition and production. Previous works have analyzed the effect of heat without considering the soil-root environment temperature, which in nature is buffered by the soil thermal-geodynamics. To solve this, we have engineered a device that generates a soil-gradient temperature to mimic the conditions found in the natural soil, while increasing the aerial temperature. Using this approach, we will identify new genes involved in the response to heat and Pi starvation as well as microorganisms that might enhance plant growth and production under adverse conditions.

Profile: Candidate should hold a bachelor’s and master’s degree in biology, biotechnology, microbiology, or related disciplines that allows them to be admitted to the PhD program.

Principal Investigator:Juan Carlos del Pozo

Web: Regulation of lateral root development during nutrient deficiencies

More info http://www.cbgp.upm.es/index.php/en/?option=com_content&view=article&id=1711

About Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (CBGP, UPM-INIA/CSIC)

The Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (CBGP, UPM-INIA/CSIC) is a joint research centre of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and the Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), recently integrated as National Centre in the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Since 2017 CBGP is a Severo Ochoa Center of Excellence and has been recently awarded a new SO accreditation for the period 2022-2025. The strategic objectives of CBGP are the generation of fundamental knowledge on the genetic and molecular bases of key biological and physiological processes in plants and plant-interacting organisms, and on genomics of plants and plant-interacting organisms. The Centre also aims to develop new Computational Biology technologies for the functional analysis of plants/microorganisms. CBGP has attracted many talented scientists since its foundation, including tenure-track positions, ERC Starting Grants, as well as CM Atracción de Talento, Beatriz Galindo and Ramon y Cajalresearchers.



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