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https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_8627-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_8627-900x1200.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_8627-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2>Interested?<\/h2>\n<p>Email <a title=\"mailto:kheath@illinois.edu?subject=\" href=\"mailto:kheath@illinois.edu?subject=\">kheath at illinois.edu<\/a>\u00a0 for opportunities in the lab!<\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2>Postdocs:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Get in touch if you&#8217;re keen to talk to Katy about postdoc opportunities!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aside from grant-funded postdocs, Heath lab postdocs have had great success with several fellowship competitions that you should look into:<\/p>\n<p>NSF postdoc fellowships: <a href=\"https:\/\/new.nsf.gov\/funding\/postdocs\">https:\/\/new.nsf.gov\/funding\/postdocs\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>USDA postdoc fellowships: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nifa.usda.gov\/grants\/funding-opportunities\/agriculture-food-research-initiative-education-workforce-development\">https:\/\/www.nifa.usda.gov\/grants\/funding-opportunities\/agriculture-food-research-initiative-education-workforce-development<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IGB Fellows at Illinois: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.igb.illinois.edu\/involve\/carl-r-woese-postdoctoral-fellowship-program\">https:\/\/www.igb.illinois.edu\/involve\/carl-r-woese-postdoctoral-fellowship-program<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2>Graduate Research<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_3\">Graduate students in the Heath lab have opportunities to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"full-width\" style=\"line-height: 24px; padding-left: 27px; text-indent: -17px;\">Ask exciting, big questions that illuminate general concepts in ecology, evolution and genetics!<\/li>\n<li class=\"full-width\" style=\"line-height: 24px; padding-left: 27px; text-indent: -17px;\">Work on fascinating fungal, bacterial, and\/or plant systems!<\/li>\n<li class=\"full-width\" style=\"line-height: 24px; padding-left: 27px; text-indent: -17px;\">Travel to beautiful locations (France, Panama, just to name a few)!<\/li>\n<li class=\"full-width\" style=\"line-height: 24px; padding-left: 27px; text-indent: -17px;\">Learn a range of techniques from classical microbiology, quantitative genetics, and ecology to cutting-edge genomic, metagenomic, and transcriptomic methods!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_3\">Multiple graduate programs with slightly different, but overlapping, focal areas exist here at Illinois. We have multiple ways of funding you, including training grants (e.g., a recent DOE GAANN), university fellowships, grant-funded RAs, and TAs. Students are typically funded with a mix of these during their time in graduate school. If you\u2019re interested in graduate school, and you think what we do is interesting, it\u2019s best to contact me before you put in an application so we can discuss potential projects, funding options, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2>Undergraduate Research<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_3\">Get in touch if you are interested in starting a research project in the lab. I expect that you will be: enthusiastic, motivated, and most importantly, interested in figuring out if a career in research (graduate school) is right for you. Undergraduate projects in my group could focus on plant-rhizobium mutualisms, plant-fungal interactions (including mycorrhizae and endophytes), or any number of topics related to species interactions and ecological and evolutionary genetics\/genomics. These projects will generally last at least one year and have the potential to include summer work.<span class=\"style_2\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_3\">See the Plant Biology undergrad <a href=\"http:\/\/sib.illinois.edu\/plantbio\/undergraduate_research\">page<\/a> for more info<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_3\">Independent Research <a href=\"http:\/\/www.life.uiuc.edu\/sib\/390_490.htm\">Projects<\/a> for IB Majors (IB 390 and IB 490)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_3\">Summer Research Opportunities Program (<a href=\"https:\/\/grad.illinois.edu\/diversity\/srop\">SROP<\/a>)<span class=\"style_3\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/symbiosis.illinois.edu\">GEMS<\/a>: Genomics and Eco-Evolution of Multi-Scale Symbiosis: A NSF Biological Integration Institute, with opportunities for graduate and postdoctoral funding<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sib.illinois.edu\/plantbio\/graduate_admissions\">Plant Biology<\/a> graduate program<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sib.illinois.edu\/academics\/graduate-programs\/program-ecology-evolution-conservation-biology-peec\">Program<\/a> in Ecology Evolution and Conservation (PEEC) graduate program<span class=\"style_3\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"style_4\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publish.illinois.edu\/microbialsystems\/\">Microbiome<\/a> Initiative at Illinois:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.igb.illinois.edu\/research-areas\/igoh\">Infection<\/a> Genomics for One Health (IGOH), research theme at the IGB and home base of GEMS:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/pbags\/\">PBAGS<\/a> (Plant Biology Association of Graduate Students):<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/geeb\/\">GEEB<\/a> (Graduates in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology):<span class=\"style_2\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_7\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Untitled-design-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Untitled-design-2.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Untitled-design-2-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Untitled-design-2-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Untitled-design-2-100x50.png 100w, https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Untitled-design-2-150x75.png 150w, https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Untitled-design-2-200x100.png 200w, https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Untitled-design-2-450x225.png 450w, https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Untitled-design-2-600x300.png 600w, https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Untitled-design-2-900x450.png 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested? 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