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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">A postdoctoral research associate position is available in the<span> </span><a href="https://sustainability.illinois.edu/" id="m_3748370460003115362OWAae481e74-6a5c-f29b-2dd4-0e103cc71f2a" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" target="_blank">Institute
 for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment<span> </span></a>at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as part of the Sustainability Theme in the U.S. Department of Energy-funded Bioenergy Research Center, the<span> </span><a href="https://cabbi.bio/" id="m_3748370460003115362OWA46b34fc9-00c9-b8f0-ef5e-559f15d0aac1" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" target="_blank">Center
 for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI)</a>. The goal of the CABBI Sustainability Theme is to develop the predictive capability to determine which feedstock combinations, regions and land types, market conditions, and biofuels and bioproducts
 have the potential to support the ecologically and economically sustainable displacement of fossil fuels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">The postdoc is sought to support research on plant-soil-microbe interactions in bioenergy cropping systems (sorghum, sugarcane/energycane, and miscanthus) with regards to carbon
 and nitrogen biogeochemistry. This includes but is not limited to: investigating how highly productive perennial grasses alter deep soil carbon cycling; assessing how drought tolerance and other plant traits can reduce the carbon intensity of bioenergy crop
 production; and determining how oil-enhanced bioenergy crops alter soil carbon and nitrogen cycling. Job duties include designing and conducting field and laboratory experiments, developing and testing innovative stable isotope approaches to investigate plant-soil-microbe
 interactions in the new CABBI Stable Isotope Labeling Facility, coordinating research activities with a large team of collaborators, mentoring graduate students, supervising technicians and undergraduates, writing manuscripts, and presenting at scientific
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">The postdoc will work with Dr. Wendy Yang and will collaborate with other researchers in the CABBI Sustainability, Feedstock Production, and Conversion Themes, including ecosystem
 modelers, microbial ecologists, and agronomists. The postdoc will work in the<span> </span><a href="https://www.igb.illinois.edu/" id="m_3748370460003115362OWA0b2e2885-69f1-64e5-9079-b0a3118cd255" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" target="_blank">Institute
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Strong candidates will also possess the following attributes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">The position is available for three years; however, annual renewal is dependent on funding and progress made by the individual. This position includes a competitive salary. Various
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><b>Application review will begin March 18, 2024</b> and will continue until the position is filled<b>.</b> The start date is flexible, but ideally by May 15, 2024.
 Applications should include a brief cover letter, curriculum vitae, and the names and contact information for three references. Please put Â“CABBI Plant-Soil-Microbe postdoc application” in the subject line of your email to Anna Fedders, the CABBI Sustainability
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(19,41,75)"><b>WENDY H. YANG</b></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(19,41,75)"><i>Professor</i></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">,<span> </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(19,41,75)">Department
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(19,41,75)"><i>Sustainability Theme Leader</i>,<span> </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="https://cabbi.bio/" id="m_3748370460003115362OWAd2f15a7b-0308-c741-0611-f4b0eb8fb62c" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" target="_blank">Center
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(19,41,75)"><i>Associate Director</i>, Agroecosystem Sustainability Center </span></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(19,41,75)"><i>LAS DeanÂ’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar</i>, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br>
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