PhD Positions in the Elderd Lab, Starting Fall 2012 Department of Biological Sciences Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA
I am currently recruiting PhD students for my lab at Louisiana State University (LSU) in the Department of Biological Sciences starting Fall 2012. In particular, my lab takes a quantitative approach to ecological questions and I require that my students have a strong interest or training in quantitative ecology. While students may work on projects closely affiliated with my research, I also encourage them to seek out their own research identity. In general, my research focuses on examining how disease outbreaks, community structure, and stochasticity influence population dynamics by combining experimental and theoretical modeling. I'm interested in: 1) disease transmission and insect outbreaks; 2) plant population demography; and, 3) population viability and rare species management. See the lab website for any additional details: <http://www.lsu.edu/faculty/elderd/>. Students may be eligible for either a teaching or research fellowship which includes a stipend and a tuition waiver. For more information on the graduate program, the department, other faculty members, and Baton Rouge, LA, please see the department website <http://www.biology.lsu.edu/>. If your interested in applying, please email me a copy of your CV and a letter of interest in a single PDF.
