The Shefferson lab at the Dept of General Systems Studies at the University of Tokyo’s Komaba Campus is recruiting graduate students at both the MS and PhD levels. Competitive fellowship opportunities are available at all levels.
The Shefferson lab specializes in plant and microbial evolutionary ecology, with a particular focus on evolutionary demography, population dynamics, and life history evolution, although we also work extensively on plant-fungal symbiosis and coevolution. We are a part of the recently developed Graduate Programs in English at the Komaba Campus of the University of Tokyo (http://gpes.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/). The GPES program allows students to start in April or October of every year, with an application deadline coming up in May for fellowship consideration and entry in April 2015. Students with an interest in the program are encouraged to contact me ASAP to learn about fellowship and application opportunities and procedures. The following are examples of current projects that graduate students may wish to be involved in: 1. Life history evolution and evolutionary dynamics in exceptionally long-lived plants 2. Eco-evolutionary population and ecosystem dynamics 3. The evolutionary impacts of symbiosis 4. The evolutionary impacts of conservation management 5. Plastic traits and their influence on evolutionary dynamics The Shefferson lab is global in its scope, with active field sites in the Japan, USA, Europe, and Central America. Although we work with all plants and even fungi, we are particularly interested in herbaceous plants, and are quite happy to work on them wherever they occur. If interested, please contact me at: E-mail：[email protected] HTML: www.sheffersonlab.com Richard P. Shefferson Associate Professor Department of General Systems Studies Graduate School of Arts and Sciences University of Tokyo 3-8-1 Komaba Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan リチャードシェファーソン 准教授 東京大学総合文化研究科広域システム科学系 153-8902 東京都目黒区駒場 3-8-1 (16号館430B号室） E-mail:[email protected] Tel/Fax: +81-03-5454-6646 Web: www.sheffersonlab.com
