On behalf of Prof Hanna Kokko
Dear all
If you know of someone who would be a good candidate to model dispersal,
phenology, population crosses and local adaptation using data on marine
midges, let them know!
The ad can be found in the News section of www.kokkonuts.org, and the
text is also below.
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Demographic and evolutionary modelling of local adaptation to the tidal
environment in Clunio marinus
at the University of Zurich, Switzerland
A PhD position in evolutionary ecology, of 48 months duration, is
available at the University of Zurich working with Prof Hanna Kokko and
her international team www.kokkonuts.org.
/Clunio marinus/ is a marine midge that has a unique life history,
living in the intertidal zone of the European Atlantic coast. Local
adaptation is important, as the timing of low tides differs across
coastal locations. Populations indeed differ in their lunar and diurnal
rhythms of adult emergence, and the differences are genetic (as known
from past crossing experiments and through genomic work by Dr. Tobias
Kaiser).
This project, which forms a collaboration between Dr. Kaiser’s group at
the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön and Prof.
Kokko’s group at the University of Zurich, aims to fill in a knowledge
gap considering the evolutionary demography of the species: how is local
adaptation maintained, given the different dispersal options leading to
different genotypes mating, potentially producing maladapted emergence
times with respect to seasonal phenology and/or lunar cycles?
The ideal candidate has a grasp of demographic and/or evolutionary
modelling, and a willingness to develop his/her skills further in this
regard. The PhD will be awarded by the University of Zurich, which is
also the main location of the student’s work, but the project also
involves visits to Plön and the potentially many coastal field sites.
The working language in the group is English (German skills are not
essential). The position is available as soon as the candidate has been
found. The evaluation of applications begins on October 10, 2017
<x-apple-data-detectors://3>, and will continue until a suitable
candidate has been found.
Applicants should send a cover letter with a
- Statement of their research interests
- C.V., and
- The names and contact details of at least one referee.
Applications should form a single pdf file and this should be sent to:
[email protected]
Hanna Kokko
-- Prof. Hanna Kokko Department of Evolutionary Biology and
Environmental Studies University of Zurich Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057 Zurich Switzerland <x-apple-data-detectors://7>
www.kokkonuts.org or www.ieu.uzh.ch/staff/professors/kokko.html
[email protected]
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