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Post date: Dec 7, 2015 12:52:15 AM
From: <evoldir@evol.biology.mcmaster.ca>
Date: Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 2:22 AM
Subject: Graduate Position: CUNY comparative population genetics
The Hickerson lab at the City University of New York (CUNY) has an opening for a PhD student who is interested in developing models that link biogeographic history, community ecology and comparative population genomics. Our group is focusing on developing and implementing methods for understanding the evolutionary and demographic histories of species assemblages and ecosystems given environmental, spatial, and aggregate population genomic data. The statistical models we develop are broadly applicable to a variety of regions and members of our group have worked with a diverse set of taxa and ecosystems.
?The ideal candidate will have a strong interest and aptitude in quantitative biology, modeling, and programming as well as an interest in evolutionary genetics and biogeography. The lab welcomes qualified applicants with diverse backgrounds, including biology, anthropology, mathematics, physics, computer science, and related fields.
To offset teaching requirements, the PhD candidate will be supported by two five-year grants funded by NSF and NASA (1. DEB-1253710 - CAREER: Dynamic models of isolation and admixture for community-scale population genomic inference & 2. DEB-1343578 - Dimensions US-BIOTA-Sao Paulo: A multidisciplinary framework for biodiversity prediction in the Brazilian Atlantic forest hotspot - <http://www.afbiota.org/> http://www.afbiota.org/?).
Our lab is located in Manhattan and locally we have tight collaborations with the lab groups of Ana Carnaval (CUNY), Kyle McDonald (CUNY), Frank Burbrink (AMNH), and Brian Smith (AMNH), as well as international collaborations with Konrad Lohse (U. of Edinburgh, UK), Graham Stone (U. of Edinburgh, UK) and Brent Emerson (Canary Islands, Spain). CUNY has a large and thriving community of faculty, students, and post-docs studying ecology, evolution, and behavior and we benefit from the academic environment in New York City that allows us to have close ties to the AMNH, the New York Botanical Gardens as well as other local universities, including Columbia, Fordham, Rockefeller, NYU and Stony Brook.
The positions would start in the Fall of 2016. Contact mhickerson 'at' ccny cuny.edu if there is interest. Note that applications for Fall 2016 to the CUNY EEB subprogram must be received before January 1rst of 2016.
For more information visit: http://hickerlab.wordpress.com/
Michael J Hickerson
Associate Professor
City College of New York - Biology Department;
160 Convent Ave
New York, NY 10031
lab 212-650-3457
Chair, Ecology Evolution, and Behavior subprograms (EEB)
City University of New York and the Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4309
Research Associate - Division of Invertebrate Zoology
American Museum of Natural History
http://hickerlab.wordpress.com/
#bio, #genetics, #genomics, #evolution, #gis, #geographic
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