Fully funded, deep-sea biodiversity and vision research opportunities
PhD, Postdoc & Program Manager positions available.
The School of Biological Sciences and the University of Western Australia
Oceans Institute (Perth) are offering several research opportunities
in the context of species evolution, delimitation and description,
behaviour, physiology, and functional morphology of visual and other
sensory systems in deep sea (midwater) invertebrates.
The project is supported by the Ocean Shot project (Sasakawa Peace
Foundation) “Discovery in the largest frontier: advance imaging and
genomics of open ocean animals”
The project is run in collaboration with Tohoku University, Sendai,
Japan and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing,
CA. Our aim is to accelerate the process of species discovery,
classification, and documentation in the largest and least explored
habitat on earth – the deep, open ocean or midwater. We have four
primary objectives. 1. Expediting species discovery. 2. Fast and accurate
classification. 3. Understanding the role of newly discovered species
in oceanic processes. And 4. building collaboration within the midwater
science and engineering community.
We will gather high-quality, biologically meaningful data about the
morphology and sensory systems (with a focus on vision) of novel
specimens using innovative in situ and ex situ imaging and sampling
systems. Genome sequencing will produce reference libraries for a wide
diversity of midwater invertebrates. At UWA we will develop and apply
approaches such as bioinformatics, modelling, anatomy (including 3D
microCT), electrophysiology, and behaviour to identify, document and
describe novel species and their midwater communities.
We are looking to assemble a dynamic and diversely skilled team to work
together on this opportunity. We are looking for a program manager with
an interest in deep sea biology, to bind it all together.
Positions available at University of Western Australia:
• Project/data manager (1+1+1 yrs)
• Midwater invertebrate behavior postdoc (1+1+1 yrs)
• PhD students (3.5 yrs)
Contact for further information: Prof Jan Hemmi jan.hemmi@uwa.edu.au
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Karen Osborn
Research Zoologist/Curator of Polychaetes, Peracarids and Plankton
Department of Invertebrate Zoology
w 202.633.3668 osbornk@si.edu
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-422
Mail: Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian National Museum
of Natural History, MRC-163
P.O. Box 37012, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 USA
Courier Address: Smithsonian Institution, MR 0163, Natural History,
West Loading Dock, 10th and Constitution Ave NW, Washington, D.C. 20560
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