Oferta compartida por Nuria A 2-year Post doc position is now open at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen. The position is in the Wildlife Genetics group led by Rasmus Heller, and will work on analyzing several large genomic data sets from African mammals. The position is part of the African Wildlife Genomics project in which we will sequence 10,000+ individuals spanning 20+ species of large African mammals and use population genetics to better understand the evolutionary history of Africa's megafauna. Topics under investigation include population structure, phylogeography, gene flow, speciation, local adaptations, demographic history and conservation. The preferred candidate has a strong background in analyzing whole-genome data, including a thorough understanding of NGS data and bioinformatic processing of raw sequencing data. The candidate must also be able to demonstrate an interest in - or preferably experience with - population genetic method development. In...
Oferta compartida por Nuria Multiple Ph.D. positions are available in the Weir Lab ( http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~jweir/ ) in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ( https://eeb.utoronto.ca/education/graduate/ ) at the Scarborough campus of University of Toronto ( https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/biosci/ ). Our lab uses genomic, morphological and behavioural data to address how speciation occurs in tropical and temperate regions, with a special focus on birds. Possible PhD projects available include: Genomic analyses of avian hybrid zones in Amazonian and Canadian birds. Conservation genomics and phylogeography of New Zealand kiwi (using our dataset of 55 kiwi genomes). Comparative phylogeography and population genomics across multiple co-distributed avian species complexes to better understand biogeographic drivers of diversification in boreal and Amazonian regions. Analyses of rates of avian colour and song evolution across latitudinal gradients. The positions would begin i...
Oferta compartida por Nuria Phylogenomics and evolution of speciose desert rodents (genera: Gerbillus ) We are looking for an enthusiastic student / researcher to join project and expeditions to the Sahara to collect data and accomplish research / PhD thesis. The selected candidate will apply with the team for an independent research position / PhD scholarship. Several financing opportunities exist within the supervisor team institutions (see below). Ongoing climate change, and extreme weather events, raised concern for species survival throughout the world. Some organisms have long coped with those problems, by adapting to new conditions and seeking shelter in suitable patchy areas. Therefore a promising approach to predict the future of the species is to first reconstruct its evolutionary past. North Africa has been exposed to frequent, and repeated, climatic oscillations. Therefore, the Sahara desert can serve as a laboratory to study how species respond to climate change and extrem...
Oferta compartida por Nuria Postdoctoral fellowship opportunity for Evolutionary Biologists: Diversification rates and adaptive radiation on Neotropical rodents. The Laboratorio de Mamíferos, Departamento de Ciências Biologicas, Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz", Universidade de Sao Paulo, coordinated by Alexandre Reis Percequillo, is housing the FAPESP Thematic Project "Diversity of Neotropical rodents (Rodentia: Sciuridae, Cricetidae, Echimyidae): origin, evolution and biogeography" for the next five years, and is offering an opportunity of postdoctoral fellowship for Brazilian or foreign applicants, who has completed a PhD in Life Sciences (Zoology, Ecology, Genetics or Biology) no more than six years before the start of this scholarship. The project "Diversification rates and adaptive radiation on Neotropical rodents" aims to understand the evolutionary history of distinct families of rodents (e.g., Cricetidae, Echimyidae, Sciuridae) thr...
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...
