Austria/Vienna: PhD positions in Population Genetics

[Julia Hosp]

Over the past years, Vienna has developed into one of the leading centres
of population genetics. The Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics
has been founded to provide a training opportunity for PhD students to
build on this excellent on-site expertise.

We invite applications from highly motivated and outstanding students with
a background in one of the following disciplines: bioinformatics,
statistics, evolutionary genetics, functional genetics, theoretical and
experimental population genetics. Students from related disciplines, such
as physics or mathematics are also welcome to apply.

Topics include:

• Complex trait dissection in conifers.
• Efficient detection of variants of polygenic adaptation in
Drosophila experimental evolution.
• Evolution of gene expression.
• Functional characterization of beneficial alleles in Drosophila.
• Genomic architecture of reverse selection.
• Incipient speciation during adaptation to a new environment.
• Inference of selection parameters using whole genome data.
• Long-term dynamics of adaptive alleles.
• Microbiome evolution in Drosophila.
• Multi-measurement experimental evolution: How to combine evidence
from different sources?
• Polygenic adaptation: The roles of pleiotropy and epistasis.
• Population genomic footprints and drivers of repeated trait shifts
during adaptive radiation.
• The genetics of local adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana.
• The role of a nascent sex chromosome on interspecific patterns of
allele sharing.
• Transposon polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana.
• Within-species consequences of genomic interactions in ecologically
important species.

Only complete applications (application form, CV, motivation letter,
university certificates, indication of the two preferred topics in a single
pdf) received by *May 13, 2019* will be considered. Two letters of
recommendation need to be sent directly by the referees. Accepted PhD
students will receive a monthly salary based on currently EUR 2.162,40
before tax according to the regulations of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

All information about the about available topics, the training program and
the application procedure can be found at www.popgen-vienna.at



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Dr. Julia Hosp
Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics
Coordinator

www.popgen-vienna.at
https://twitter.com/PopGenViennaPhD

c/o Institut für Populationsgenetik
Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien (Vetmeduni Vienna)
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