Join The Rhee Lab
We always look forward to adding new members to the team as openings become available. If you are interested in joining our group, please feel free to send an email to Sue Rhee. We encourage and welcome students and postdocs who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color, First Generation College, Low Income, LBGTQ+, Veterans, People with Disabilities and all other underrepresented communities in STEM fields.
Current Position Openings
Postdoctoral Research Associate (C-SPIRIT)
We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled postdoctoral researcher to work on high-throughput metabolite discovery for plant resilience against pathogenic fungi, heat, or drought stress. The project's central focus is identifying small molecules to improve plant stress resilience. To this end, we will devise high-throughput screens (96- or 384-well format), enabling the testing of compounds and metabolic extracts for their bioactivities in relation to biotic (fungal infection) and abiotic (drought and heat) conditions. In a complementary strategy, we will devise controlled biotic (fungal pathogens) and abiotic stress treatments (heat and drought) across three crop plants, maize, pennycress, and potato, to be subjected to transcriptomics and metabolomics analyses. The postdoc will be hosted in the Rhee Lab and co-advised by several faculty including Hanson, VanBuren, and Grotewold in collaboration with the MSU Assay Development and Drug Repurposing Core. The postdoc will also collaborate with members of the Rouached, Long, Douches, and Skirycz labs.
Responsibilities:
- Leading research independently and in teams, preparing publications, and presenting research in scientific meetings
- Working closely with collaborators and lab members
- Contributing to lab-wide chores, to help foster a productive and positive lab environment
- Participating in virtual and in-person C-SPIRIT activities
Please find the full posting here: careers.msu.edu/jobs/research-associate-fixed-term-east-lansing-michigan-united-states-46004042-6ea7-497e-8bdb-44a0067e3416
We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled postdoctoral researcher to work on high-throughput metabolite discovery for plant resilience against pathogenic fungi, heat, or drought stress. The project's central focus is identifying small molecules to improve plant stress resilience. To this end, we will devise high-throughput screens (96- or 384-well format), enabling the testing of compounds and metabolic extracts for their bioactivities in relation to biotic (fungal infection) and abiotic (drought and heat) conditions. In a complementary strategy, we will devise controlled biotic (fungal pathogens) and abiotic stress treatments (heat and drought) across three crop plants, maize, pennycress, and potato, to be subjected to transcriptomics and metabolomics analyses. The postdoc will be hosted in the Rhee Lab and co-advised by several faculty including Hanson, VanBuren, and Grotewold in collaboration with the MSU Assay Development and Drug Repurposing Core. The postdoc will also collaborate with members of the Rouached, Long, Douches, and Skirycz labs.
Responsibilities:
- Leading research independently and in teams, preparing publications, and presenting research in scientific meetings
- Working closely with collaborators and lab members
- Contributing to lab-wide chores, to help foster a productive and positive lab environment
- Participating in virtual and in-person C-SPIRIT activities
Please find the full posting here: careers.msu.edu/jobs/research-associate-fixed-term-east-lansing-michigan-united-states-46004042-6ea7-497e-8bdb-44a0067e3416
Graduate Students
If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in our lab, you will first need to apply to MSU before their deadline (see application portal). We only accept students based on rotations. The admissions programs most aligned with our lab's work and that allow rotations are: Biomolecular Science (BMS): biomolecular.natsci.msu.edu/ and Plant Biology (PLB): https://plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/graduate-program/application-process.aspx. To find out if our lab might be a good fit for you, it is advised that you reach out to Dr. Rhee ([email protected]) before applying to MSU during summer/early fall. After application submission, you may be asked to interview by zoom or in person. After admission and acceptance, you can request to do a rotation in our lab. After all rotations are finished at the end of the first year, we will discuss to determine if our lab is the right environment for you.
General Summer Internships
The Rhee Lab is welcoming Summer REU applications through WALII. Please find more information here: https://www.walii.science/summer-internship-program.html
We are also welcoming members through the MSU Plant Genomics Summer REU program. More information here:plantgenomics.natsci.msu.edu/
We are also welcoming members through the MSU Plant Genomics Summer REU program. More information here:plantgenomics.natsci.msu.edu/
