Highlights:
1. The Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC) is funded by the German Excellence Initiative. It conceptionally combines different research areas (microbial communities, interactions with plant, animal and human hosts and environmental interactions) to a comprehensive picture of microbial communication (www.jsmc.uni-jena.de).
2. JSMC is an ambitious Graduate School comprising more than 150 PhD students who are educated in a structured, interdisciplinary training program based on top-level fundamental research.
3. Five faculties of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, six non-university research institutions as well as twelve partner companies are participating in this cutting edge research and training program which includes an innovative PhD program, career development and intensive sociocultural care.
4. Three embedded existing Research Training Groups as well as twelve other cooperative research projects are engaged to incorporate novel research areas to achieve a complete view of microbial communication.
5. The Graduate School of Excellence ‘JSMC’ invites applications for 4 PhD Student Fellowships (for microbiologists, medical scientists, geoscientists, biochemists, chemoecologists, marine biologists, etc.)
