********************GradStudentPositions******************** M.Sc. or Ph.D. Examining the Population Genetics of Aquatic Invasive Species (Sept 2013) The Conservation Genetics Lab at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER) has two paid assistantships available for new graduate students to explore the population genetics of Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS). The successful candidate will be a motivated and outstanding student with a background in Biology (B.Sc. or M.Sc.) and an interest in population genetics; experience with molecular biology techniques and analysis is preferred. As a member of NSERC's Canadian Aquatic Species Invasion Network (CAISN), you will join affiliates from academia, government and industry across Canada in developing our knowledge of and tools to deal with AIS -- widely recognized as one of the greatest threats to global biodiversity. As a student in GLIER's Environmental Science graduate program, you will benefit from world-class facilities, researcher expertise, focus on real world problems, and opportunities for working with GLIER's extensive collaborators and networks while making a difference in science, policy and innovation. The opportunity to train on cutting edge equipment within a collaborative atmosphere of world-class researchers will foster independence and advanced technical skills, increasing and diversifying your future employment possibilities. The successful graduate student(s) will be supported on a combination of Research Assistantships and Teaching Assistantships totaling over $20,000/year. We are currently accepting applications to begin study in September 2013. To apply, please send a letter of intent, curriculum vitae, and the names and email addresses of three references. For more information about the positions, please feel free to contact Dr. Daniel Heath (heath@uwindsor.ca). For more information about GLIER or CAISN, please see www.uwindsor.ca/glier and www.caisn.ca. saraj@uwindsor.ca ********************Jobs******************** The Ross-Ibarra laboratory (www.rilab.org) at the University of California Davis is seeking a bioinformatician to head a project involving parentage analysis, imputation, and phasing of genomes from two large mapping populations in a study of inbreeding depression in maize and its wild relatives. The position description and application can be found here: www.employment.ucdavis.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=65159 Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra Dept. of Plant Sciences 262 Robbins Hall, Mail Stop 4 University of California One Shields Ave Davis, CA 95616 www.rilab.org Tel: 530-752-1152 Fax: 530-752-4604 rossibarra@ucdavis.edu ********************Conferences******************** The 2nd International Volvox Conference EARLY REGISTRATION AND ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 15TH Please join us for the 2nd International Volvox Conference (focused on the green alga Volvox and its close relatives) to be held July 31 ¡V August 3, 2013, in Fredericton (New Brunswick, Canada). This is the second of what we hope to be a long series of Volvox meetings to be held every other year, alternating with the Chlamydomonas meetings. The first meeting, in 2011, was a great success (www.unbf.ca/vip/IVC/). Volvocine algae have become an important model system for the evolution of multicellularity, development and cellular differentiation, and lately have yielded important results in fields as diverse as genomics, hydrodynamics, and social evolution. We hope that the meeting will continue to foster exchange of ideas and expertise and will initiate new collaborations. We also wish to attract new people and to build a stronger Volvox community. The meeting (through contributed papers and posters) will highlight various aspects of the biology, taxonomy, ecology, development, genetics/genomics and evolution of Volvox and its relatives. For additional information and updates please visit the Conference page at http://www.unbf.ca/vip/IVC2013). Aurora M. Nedelcu University of New Brunswick Department of Biology PO Box 4400 Fredericton, NB Canada E3B 5A3 phone: (506) 458-7463 Aurora Nedelcu ********************Conferences******************** The American Society of Naturalists is holding an independent meeting ("21st Century Naturalists: integrating pattern and process to understand biodiversity") at the Asilomar conference center on the Monterey Peninsula, California, on January 13-15 2014. Information about the meeting is now available at http://w3.biosci.utexas.edu/amnatasilomar/. The website will be updated periodically with additional information. Registration and lodging will open in early July. To be added to the email list for further updates, email amsocnaturalists@gmail.com with a subject message "Subscribe Asilomar". The goal of the 2014 American Society of Naturalists meeting is to bring together a diverse array of biologists, including evolutionary biologists, behaviorists, and ecologists, who might not normally encounter one another at their regular meetings. This will be a small conference to promote new conversations and ideas (attendance is limited). We wish to create a unique setting where graduate students, postdocs, and faculty can carry out discussions that define new research directions for our disciplines, and promote integration between biological disciplines including the fusion of theory, data, and new technologies for data acquisition. Dr. Daniel I. Bolnick Early Career Scientist Howard Hughes Medical Institute Associate Professor Section of Integrative Biology One University Station C0990 University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 512-471-2824 fax 512-471-3878 danbolnick@austin.utexas.edu https://webspace.utexas.edu/dib73/TheBolnickLab/Home.html danbolnick@austin.utexas.edu