GRADUATE STUDIES IN BIOLOGY AT WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
The Biology Department at Western Washington University has openings
for graduate students starting Fall 2013. Faculty members in the
department offer a wide range of expertise, from molecular biology to
ecology. Graduate students are eligible for teaching assistantships,
which fund the majority of tuition and provide a stipend of $12,116
per year. WWU is located in Bellingham, WA, a small coastal city at
the base of Mt. Baker in the northwestern part of the state.
Potential advisors include:
Dietmar Schwarz: Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics,
Evolutionary Ecology. Schwarz's lab offers opportunities to study
speciation and hybridization in host specific insects (apple maggot
flies and relatives). Students would also have the opportunity to
collaborate with Alejandro Acevedo-Gutierrez on a molecular study of
diet specialization in seals.
Dave Hooper: Plant Community and Ecosystem Ecology. I will be
accepting one graduate student in fall 2013. My local research is
currently focused on assessing ecosystem services associated with
different scenarios of riparian restoration in Whatcom County.
Student work would combine GIS analyses of ecosystem services and
field work, particularly on nutrient retention, to validate modeling results.
Lynn Pillitteri: Plant Molecular and Developmental Biology. A
potential graduate project in my lab would be aimed at understanding
the molecular mechanisms driving cell type differentiation in the
model organism, Arabidopsis thaliana.
Robin Kodner: Marine Microbial Metagenomics. The Kodner lab does
interdisciplinary work integrating marine microbial ecology with
comparative genomics and bioinformatics for metagenomes. I am
recruiting for one student for work on bioinformatics projects. Some
experience with sequence analysis and programming required.
Anu Singh-Cundy: Plant Physiology. We study plant reproduction at the
physiological, cellular, and molecular levels. Current projects are
focused on understanding the role of HD-AGPs, which are proteins that
promote pollen tube growth, in members of the Solanaceae and also in
Arabidopsis.
More information can be found at:
http://www.biol.wwu.edu/biology/gradprog_brochure.shtml
or by contacting Dr. Deb Donovan, Graduate Program Advisor, at
[email protected] Late applications will be considered.
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Dietmar Schwarz, PhD
Assistant Professor
Western Washington University
Department of Biology
516 High St., MS 9160
Bellingham, WA 98225
USA
[email protected]
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