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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
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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
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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
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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