The University of Antwerp is seeking to fill the following vacancy (m/f) at the Department Biology-Ethology of the Faculty of Sciences: Ph.D. student in Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology
Job description:
Organisms interact with their environment and the environment has, as a consequence, also significant influences on them. This is particularly the case during ontogenetic development, and the same genotype can develop into a variety of phenotypes depending on the environmental circumstances in which it finds itself. Thus phenotypic development is a result of genotype, environment as well as their interplay – gene-environment interactions. Such phenotypic plasticity may enable adaptive responses to the early life environment, but may form a constraint in the long-term if the phenotypic changes appear to be irreversible. Yet, our understanding of the adaptive significance of phenotypic plasticity and phenotypic change is limited. The project aims to study the evolutionary ecology of phenotypic plasticity by integrating behaviour, physiology and endocrinology using avian species, both in the field (blue tit) and in the lab (canary); possible lines of research are:
Further reading: Monaghan Phil Trans R Soc B 2008, Müller et al. Am Nat 2007
Profile and requirements:
-You hold a MSc degree in Biology or a related field
-You have experience with animal research
-You are interested in behavioural ecology and evolutionary ecology
We offer:
Interested?
Please send all application material including 1) your curriculum vitae 2) a brief (250 words) summary of your reasons for applying and 3) a letter of reference as single PDF-file to wendt.muller[ at ]ua.ac.be.
Closing date: 31.08.11.
Further information can be obtained from: Dr. Wendt Müller, wendt.muller[ at ]ua.ac.be, phone +32 32652292, see also http://www.ua.ac.be/wendt.muller<
Country: Belgium
The University of Antwerp is seeking to fill the following vacancy (m/f) at the Department Biology-Ethology of the Faculty of Sciences: Ph.D. student in Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology
Job description:
Organisms interact with their environment and the environment has, as a consequence, also significant influences on them. This is particularly the case during ontogenetic development, and the same genotype can develop into a variety of phenotypes depending on the environmental circumstances in which it finds itself. Thus phenotypic development is a result of genotype, environment as well as their interplay – gene-environment interactions. Such phenotypic plasticity may enable adaptive responses to the early life environment, but may form a constraint in the long-term if the phenotypic changes appear to be irreversible. Yet, our understanding of the adaptive significance of phenotypic plasticity and phenotypic change is limited. The project aims to study the evolutionary ecology of phenotypic plasticity by integrating behaviour, physiology and endocrinology using avian species, both in the field (blue tit) and in the lab (canary); possible lines of research are:
Further reading: Monaghan Phil Trans R Soc B 2008, Müller et al. Am Nat 2007
Profile and requirements:
-You hold a MSc degree in Biology or a related field
-You have experience with animal research
-You are interested in behavioural ecology and evolutionary ecology
We offer:
Interested?
Please send all application material including 1) your curriculum vitae 2) a brief (250 words) summary of your reasons for applying and 3) a letter of reference as single PDF-file to wendt.muller[ at ]ua.ac.be.
Closing date: 31.08.11.
Further information can be obtained from: Dr. Wendt Müller, wendt.muller[ at ]ua.ac.be, phone +32 32652292, see also http://www.ua.ac.be/wendt.muller<
Country: Belgium