The Shefferson lab at the University of Tokyo is recruiting graduate students at both the MS and PhD levels. We specialize in *evolutionary demography*, *eco-evolutionary dynamics*, and *plant/microbial evolution*. We are currently working on funded projects related to the evolution of mycoheterotrophy, the biogeography of life history evolution, the impacts of individual heterogeneity on population dynamics, mycorrhizal coevolution, and urban evolution. Students applying to work in the lab may focus on these topics, or choose other research themes in plant and microbial evolutionary ecology. Research methods typically involve in situ monitoring and experimentation, combined with modeling and analysis based in R and/or C++.
The Shefferson lab is global in its scope, with active field sites in East Asia, North America, and Europe. Our current collaborations include projects that are global in scope, as well as projects focused on field systems in Estonia, China, Taiwan, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Although we work with all plants and fungi, we are particularly interested in herbaceous plants and mycorrhizal fungi. Interested students may read about our projects our interests through several sources, including the Journal of Ecology blog ( https://jecologyblog.com/2018/03/22/richard-shefferson/), and various media sources, such as Popular Science ( https://www.popsci.com/plants-dormant-climate-change). The Shefferson lab is located within the University of Tokyo, at the Komaba Campus. U Tokyo is home to some of the finest scientists in Japan, including ecologists and evolutionary biologists, and more Nobel laureates than you can shake a stick at. Komaba in particular has a particularly large community of ecologists and evolutionary biologists working on plants, animals, and fungi. We also offer graduate programs in both Japanese and English. Students wishing to pursue their graduate research may do so fully in English via the Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences (http://gpes.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/), or may pursue study in Japanese via the General Systems Sciences program (http://system.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/). *Please note **that t**here is a strict application deadline of 22 Nov 2018 for entry in September 2019.* If interested, please contact me at, and please also explore the Shefferson lab website: E-mail：*cd...@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp <cd...@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>* HTML: www.sheffersonlab.com -- New book on the Evolution of Senescence in the Tree of Life http://tinyurl.com/SenescenceBook ------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Richard P. Shefferson Associate Professor Organization for Programs on Environmental Sciences 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国際環境学教育機構 153-8902 東京都目黒区駒場 3-8-1 (新6号館209A号室） E-mail:cd...@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp <cd...@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Tel: +81-3-5465-7235 Fax: +81-3-5465-7236 Web: www.sheffersonlab.com
