PhD positions in Population Genetics

Over the past years, Vienna has developed into one of the leading centres
of population genetics. The Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics
has been founded to provide a training opportunity for PhD students to
build on this excellent on-site expertise.

We invite applications from highly motivated and outstanding students with
a love for evolutionary research and a background in one of the following
disciplines: evolutionary genetics, functional genetics, theoretical or
experimental population genetics, bioinformatics, mathematics, statistics.

Topics include:

  *   The role of deleterious mutations for adaptation and maintenance
      of variation.
  *   Long-term adaptation of local Drosophila populations.
  *   Inference of selection signatures from time-series data.
  *   Making sense of whole-genome polymorphism data.
  *   Studying the genotype-phenotype map.
  *   Stabilising selection during polygenic adaptation.
  *   Evolution of regulatory networks.

Only complete applications (application form, CV, motivation letter,
university certificates, indication of the two preferred topics in
a single pdf) received by September 18, 2024 will be considered. Two
letters of recommendation need to be sent directly by the referees.

PhD students will receive a monthly salary based on currently  euro  2.464,80
before tax according to the regulations of the Austrian Science Fund
(FWF).

All information about the about available topics, the
training program and the application procedure can be found at
www.popgen-vienna.at

Carina Baskett

Coordinator, Joint Research Program (SFB)--Polygenic Adaptation
Coordinator, Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics
she/her/hers
carina.baskett@vetmeduni.ac.at

Baskett Carina <Carina.Baskett@vetmeduni.ac.at>

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