PhD en Genomics of Invasive Hemipteran Pests - Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracovia, Polonia - 48 meses - ~5000-6500 PLN bruto/mes - Deadline 7 agosto 2026 Location: Kraków, Poland Organization: Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences Contract Type: Fully funded PhD position, 48 months Main Description: A fully funded doctoral position is available to investigate the genomic basis of invasion success using two invasive hemipteran pest species. The project combines molecular laboratory work with bioinformatic analysis and population genomics to understand the mechanisms underlying biological invasions. Requirements: MSc degree completed by the start of the position Strong interest in evolutionary genomics, population genomics, or invasion biology Experience or keen interest in bioinformatics and genomic data analysis Good written and spoken English communication skills Strong organizational skills and motivation for independent ...
PhD en genómica de invasiones de especies plaga forestal (Hemíptera) - Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences - Cracovia, Polonia - 48 meses - ~3790-4930 PLN netos/mes - Deadline 7 agosto 2026 Location: Kraków, Poland Organization: Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences Contract Type: PhD position (48 months) Main Description: The Institute of Nature Conservation offers a 48-month doctoral position funded by the NCN OPUS grant to study the genomic mechanisms underlying invasion success in Hemiptera pest species (Cinara curvipes and Leptoglossus occidentalis). The successful candidate will work on de novo sequencing, genome assembly, annotation, and analysis of structural variation, transposable element content, and gene families related to invasion success. Requirements: M.Sc. degree in bioinformatics, computational biology, or evolutionary biology Strong interest in evolutionary and population genomics Experience or strong interest in b...
Call for Abstracts: Submit Your Research to the Białowieża Ecology Conference 2024 Dear Sirs, We are pleased to announce that we have extended the deadline for accepting abstracts for the first edition of the Bialowieza Ecology Conference (BEC) . The conference is entitled " Temperate Forests in the Anthropocene: Disturbances, Species, Humans, and Ecosystem Functioning " and will take place from September 15th to 20th 2024 in the pristine natural beauty of Europe's last primeval forest in Białowieża, Poland . https://bpn.com.pl/index.php? lang=en Key dates: Abstract Submissions Open: March 6th, 2024 Submission Deadline: April 30th, 2024 Notification to Authors: May 26th, 2024 Authors' Acceptance and early bird registration deadline: June 09th, 2024 Registration deadline: June 30th, 2024 Conference Theme and Scope - The Białowieża Ecology Conference (BEC) is a series of international scientific conferences that...
Nota de Nando: Prácticas sin remuneración, sólo alojamiento. Si te decides, ¡busca financiación o beca alternativa y coméntalo con ellos! Internship offer – Predation-induced stress effect in the forest ecosystem General Stress Paradigm project We are looking for volunteers in the project: “Multilevel effects of predation-induced prey stress on ecosystem functioning in temperate forests”. We cannot offer financial support, however, we could provide help with accommodation. Duration: 15/01/2024 – 15/05/2024 (can be extended or adjusted) Project Description: The main objective is to assess the impact of predation risk due to the presence of large carnivores (wolf, lynx) on stoichiometry (C:N) along trophic levels down to the soil through the potentially induced stress response of ungulates (red deer and roe deer). The general hypothesis is that the increased risk of predation resulting from prey detection causes chronic stress in animals, leading to a reallocation of nutrients...
Oferta compartida por Nuria An evolutionary biologist is required for a Post-doc position within a grant ‘Historical morphometrics of the European bison skulls and its association with species inbreeding increase’. The project will be realized at the Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Poland. Summary and objectives of the project European bison is a species of unique demographic history. It has been through an extremely severe bottleneck in the 1920s. The whole contemporary population originates from a meager group of founders. Just two of them turned out to be predominant, and their share in the contemporary gene pool is above 80%. The effects are extremely low genetic variation (Wójcik et al., 2009; Tokarska et al., 2009; Tokarska et al., 2011) and highly increased inbreeding level, reaching 75% (Pertoldi et al., unpublished). Although increased inbreeding is regarded as an important factor affecting the viability of a population, resulting in lowere...
Oferta compartida por Cristina Post-doc position at the Mammal Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża for the project: "Historical morphometrics of the European bison skulls and its association with species inbreeding increase” The summary and objectives of the project: European bison is a species of unique demographic history. It has been through an extremely severe bottleneck in the 1920s. The whole contemporary population originates from a meager group of founders. Just two of them turned out to be predominant, and their share in the contemporary gene pool is above 80%. The effects are extremely low genetic variation (Wójcik et al., 2009; Tokarska et al., 2009; Tokarska et al., 2011) and highly increased inbreeding level, reaching 75% (Pertoldi et al., unpublished). Although increased inbreeding is regarded as an important factor affecting the viability of a population, resulting in lowered genetic differentiation and decreased fitness, its impact on t...
Oferta compartida por Cristina PhD position at the Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża for the project: " Historical morphometrics of the European bison skulls and its association with species inbreeding increase” The summary and objectives of the project: European bison is a species of unique demographic history. It has been through an extremely severe bottleneck in the 1920s. The whole contemporary population originates from a meager group of founders. Just two of them turned out to be predominant, and their share in the contemporary gene pool is above 80%. The effects are extremely low genetic variation (Wójcik et al., 2009; Tokarska et al., 2009; Tokarska et al., 2011) and highly increased inbreeding level, reaching 75% (Pertoldi et al., unpublished). Although increased inbreeding is regarded as an important factor affecting the viability of a population, resulting in lowered genetic differentiation and decreased fitness, its impact on the Europe...
Oferta compartida por Cristina The role of early environment and physiology on phenotypic variation of nestlings in an avian coevolutionary arms race We are looking for a highly motivated PhD student to join the Behavioural Ecology Group at the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (Poland). The student will conduct research on the environmental and physiological mechanisms determining phenotypic variation in nestlings of fan-tailed gerygone (Gerygone flavolateralis) from New Caledonia. Short description: In New Caledonia the brood-parasitic shining bronze-cuckoo (Chalcites lucidus) and its exclusive host the fan-tailed gerygone have nestlings occurring in two discrete colour morphs, either pink-grey (bright) or dark-grey (dark). The cuckoo nestlings mimic the gerygone nestlings but, despite mimicry and phenotypic variation, host parents discriminate and eject the cuckoo nestling from the nest. Our research has focused on the breeding biology of h...
Oferta compartida por Nuria The newly-founded Molecular Mechanisms of Symbiosis Lab ( echrostek.wixsite.com/website ; Institure of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland) is recruiting two members of staff to work on a 5-year ERC Starting Grant, "Mechano-Wolbachia", interested in discovering how the antiviral bacterium works, and all things related to host-microbe biology. We are a young team, providing an inclusive and supporting environment and a competitive salary (3,500€/month employment costs, taxes apply) Role 1: Postdoc / Lab Manager We are looking for a Postdoc/Lab Manager to orgaznie the newly-founded laboratory, help with everyday's operations (including Drosophila, mosquito and cell lines maintenance), train new lab members in basic molecular biology protocols and support them while they are settling in Krakow and the University. Once the lab is set up, and exciting molecular biology project will be available, aiming at creating geneti...
Oferta compartida por Nuria Post-doc position in the project:BIOdiversity PAtternS and Scale: the case of peracarid Crustacea from south‑eastern Australia (BIOPASS) A postdoctoral position is available in the Marine Biology Research group at Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz. Project: The main objective of the project addresses the lack of fundamental knowledge about biological diversity patterns in the benthic marine ecosystems off the south-eastern Australian coast. This project is an interactive approach that focuses on identification and assessing local diversity of peracarids (Tanaidacea and Isopoda) from SE Australia to point the environmental factors shaping the diversity over latitudinal and bathymetric gradients. The project is held in University of Lodz (Poland) and forms a close collaboration with the University of Valencia (Spain) and Melbourne Museum (Australia). Candidate: The postdoc is expected to apply methods for species delimita...
Oferta compartida por Cristina Wild Urban Evolution & Ecology Lab Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw Field assistants / Spring 2022 Do you like working with wildlife? We are looking for field assistants to work on the Warsaw Gradient of Urbanisation for the 2022 field season. We will be hiring 3-4 field assistants, ideally working full time to perform urban ecology fieldwork at the Wild Urban Evolution & Ecology Lab , Centre of New Technologies (CeNT), University of Warsaw (Poland) for a period of 1-3 months in the timeframe of mid-April to mid-July 2022. Full details on the position are available here . Applications will be evaluated in real time, so don’t hesitate to apply ASAP! We warmly welcome applications from biologists/biology students who recently arrived to Poland due to the war conflict in Ukraine.
Ofertas compartidas por Nuria Two 3-year Postdoc positions at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Warsaw (Application Deadline: 15/2/2022; starting date: April 2022) - ideally with background in specimen-based to quantitative evolutionary (paleo)biology/(paleo)ecology/(paleo)parasitology (PhD) to join the (future) team of Kenneth De Baets working on PARADIVE: the integrated study of parasitism, biodiversity and environmental change. 1st Postdoc (UW/IDUB/2021/91) is more focused on (bio)informatics/programming/data science and setting up an invertebrate paleopathology database and collected new data involving molluscs and/or echinoderms across extinction events to model the association between parasite prevalence and host diversity: https://inicjatywadoskonalosci.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2022/01/job-UW_IDUB_2021_91_EN.pdf 2nd Postdoc (UW/IDUB/2021/90) is more specimen-based and focuses on parasitic remains associated with vertebrate coprolites ...
Oferta compartida por Nuria Lab manager position available at the Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics at the University of Warsaw (Poland). The position is financed by the National Science Centre Poland as a part of "Paleogenomic analysis of small mammals in the reconstruction of species responses to climate change" research project. The position predominantly involves logistic support of the Laboratory. In particular: monitoring the Laboratory's reagent and equipment stock and procurement organization of work in the laboratory and ensuring users' adherence to cleanliness and safety rules in the laboratory participation in laboratory work, such as ancient DNA extraction or preparation of DNA libraries for high-throughput sequencing. Requirements: Master's or PhD degree in biology, biotechnology, or molecular biology or similar. Good knowledge of molecular genetics, experience in laboratory work. Experience in DNA extraction, preparation of DNA...
Oferta compartida por Nuria The "Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Genome Biology" lead byDr. Guillem Ylla will open at the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland) next fall and invites applications for a fully funded 3-year post-doc position starting between November 2021 and January 2022. The candidate will have the chance to work in a young lab, collaborate with international researchers, and use state-of-the-art technologies, infrastructure, and methodologies to study the evolution of genomes and gene regulatory networks. We are seeking a motivated candidate interested in analyzing "omics" data to unveil the different mechanisms of gene expression regulation and genome evolution. The candidate will also participate in writing articles and grants, mentoring students, and managing the lab resources. Candidates belonging to minority groups are strongly encouraged to apply. We offer a competitive postdoc salary plus all benefits available for university employees....
Oferta compartida por Nuria Post-doc position in evolutionary biology is available for three years, preferably starting October-December 2021 but subject to negotiations, in a project “Sex, aggression and ecology – how sexual selection alters population dynamics?”. This collaborative project is led by Jacek Radwan (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan), Rob Knell (Queen Mary University, London) and Tom Cameron (University of Essed), and is funded by Polish Science Centre (NCN). Project summary: In recent years an increasing awareness that sexual selection may play a crucial role in larger scale processes such as adaptation to altered environments and population persistence has developed, but empirical support for this role is extremely inconsistent. The aim of the proposed project is to resolve this inconsistencies by using a combination of simulation modelling and laboratory experiments. Laboratory experiments investigate the effects of sexual selection on a variety of ecological...
Oferta compartida por Nuria Post-doc Position in the project "BIOdiversity PAtternS and Scale: the case of peracarid Crustacea from south-eastern Australia" (BIOPASS) A postdoctoral position is available in the Marine Biology Research group at Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz (Poland). Project: The main objective of the project addresses the lack of fundamental knowledge about biological diversity patterns in the benthic marine ecosystems off the south-eastern Australian coast. This project is an interactive approach that focuses on identification and assessing local diversity of peracarids (Tanaidacea and Isopoda) from SE Australia to point the environmental factors shaping the diversity over latitudinal and bathymetric gradients. The project is held in University of Lodz (Poland) and forms a close collaboration with the University of Valencia (Spain) and Melbourne Museum (Australia). Candidate: The postdoc is expected to apply a variety o...
Oferta compartida por Nuria A postdoctoral position in landscape genomics and ecological modelling is now open in a research group led by Dr Małgorzata Pilot at the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The research group studies microevolutionary processes in mammalian populations using genetic and ecological approaches. We look for a person experienced with landscape genetics/genomics methods and GIS-based modelling to join a project focused on evolutionary consequences of hybridization among species from the genus Canis across Eurasia. The position is available for three years, from July 2021. The research group is based at the Research Station of the Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Sciences in Gdańsk, Poland. Work description This position will involve the analyses of environmental data on canid populations across Eurasia using GIS and environmental association analyses for genomic datasets, as well as participation in the sup...
