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<div dir="auto">Application due date: December 1, 2023</div>
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<div dir="auto">Hello everyone! </div>
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<div dir="auto">My lab is looking to recruit a graduate student (MS or PhD) to a project applying deep learning to the taxonomic analysis of dispersed leaf cuticle. Funded by an American Chemical Society - Petroleum Research Fund New Directions grant, the project
is in collaboration with Rich Barclay (Smithsonian, Natural History), Shu Kong (Texas A&M, Computer Science), Carlos Jaramillo (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute), and Hermann Behling (University of Göttingen).</div>
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<div dir="auto">Applicants should have undergraduate or graduate experience in laboratory or museum research and Python programming. Students with a strong background in statistics/probability and/or plant systematics are encouraged to apply.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Please apply directly to the Plant Biology graduate program through the University of Illinois graduate admissions website. Applications are due December 1. Instructions on how to apply may be found here: https://sib.illinois.edu/departments/plant-biology/graduate-admissions-plant-biology.
More information on the department may be found here: https://sib.illinois.edu/departments/plant-biology.</div>
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<div dir="auto">The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is located ~120 miles south of Chicago in a metropolitan area of ~232,000 people. The campus is home to internationally recognized facilities and interdisciplinary programs including the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications, the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, and the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment. The University’s Prairie Research Institute is home to the Illinois Natural History Survey and the Illinois
State Geological Survey.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Please feel free to contact me (spunya1@illinois.edu) if you have any questions.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Best,</div>
<div dir="auto">Surangi Punyasena</div>
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<div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.si.edu/fossil-atmospheres">https://www.si.edu/fossil-atmospheres</a><br>
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