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Post date: Dec 5, 2015 11:33:14 PM
From: <evoldir@evol.biology.mcmaster.ca>
Date: Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 2:03 AM
Subject: Graduate position: EastCarolinaU.Evolution
The graduate program in the Department of Biology at East Carolina
University invites applications from prospective PhD and MS students for
fall 2016. East Carolina University is the third largest campus in the
University of NC system and has an active and well-supported group of
faculty working in the areas of ecology and evolution. Currently, we
have >70 MS students and >20 doctoral students enrolled in our graduate
programs. Students accepted into the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program
in Biological Sciences will receive at least five years of support at a
very competitive level. TA-ships are readily available in our two MS
programs and Biology faculty members also supervise students in ECU's
Coastal Resource Management PhD program. Our faculty members (see below)
conduct research across the globe and excellent opportunities exist to
work in terrestrial, freshwater, wetland and marine systems.
Our students enjoy living in the affordable community of Greenville,
NC and having access to several natural areas, universities and research
centers located in central and eastern NC. The Biodiversity Initiative
at East Carolina University also provides graduate students with
opportunities to participate in journal clubs, workshops, and outreach
events and access to high performance desktop computers. In addition to
resources within faculty labs, students also have access to a Central
Environmental lab, a core genomics facility, and a high performance
computing core.
Application deadlines vary with particular programs but students applying
early will have a greater chance of receiving financial support. Please
visit http://www.ecu.edu/biology/ to find out more about our department,
faculty and graduate programs. In addition to visiting departmental
and faculty websites, please contact prospective mentors directly to
our director of graduate studies, Ed Stellwag (stellwage@ecu.edu),
for more information. We are happy to arrange visits for competitive
prospective students and additional scholarship support may be available
for the strongest applicants.
Departmental faculty with expertise in ecology and evolution include:
Marcelo Ardon: Aquatic ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry.
Chris Balakrishnan: Avian evolutionary and behavioral genomics.
Seth Barribeau: Evolutionary ecology of hosts, parasites, and symbionts
in pollinator and pest insects.
April Blakeslee: Conservation biology, marine ecology, parasite ecology,
biological invasions ecology and evolution.
Michael Brewer: Evolutionary genomics, systematics, and bioinformatics.
David Chalcraft: Population and community ecology; ecological aspects of
biodiversity.
Robert Christian: Coastal ecosystem ecology and network ecology.
Erin Field: Marine microbial processes, geomicrobiology, microbial genomics.
Carol Goodwillie: Plant mating system evolution, plant population ecology and
genetics.
Pat Harris: Fish ecology and life history, fisheries management.
Jinling Huang: Evolutionary genomics and bioinformatics.
Fadi Issa: Neurobiology & Behavior, neurodegeneration.
Claudia Jolls: Plant evolutionary ecology and conservation.
Dave Kimmel: Plankton ecology.
Trip Lamb: Systematics and phylogeography.
Joe Luczkovich: Food web ecology and fish bioacoustics.
Krista McCoy: Ecological development and physiology.
Mike McCoy: Quantitative population and community ecology.
Jeff McKinnon: Sexual selection, speciation, mainly in fish.
Sue McRae: Behavioral ecology and social evolution in birds.
Ariane Peralta: Microbial ecology, wetland ecology, agroecology.
Enrique Reyes: Landscape ecology, ecological modeling, coastal management.
Roger Rulifson: Fish ecology and fisheries.
Ed Stellwag: Vertebrate evo-devo and cis-regulatory network evolution.
John Stiller: Molecular evolution and comparative genomics.
Kyle Summers: Evolution of color, behavior in poison frogs; evolutionary
medicine.
Heather Vance-Chalcraft: Community ecology.
Terry West: Human impacts on coastal ecosystems.
Baohong Zhang: MicroRNA evolution, comparative genomics, and molecular genetics.
Yong Zhu: Comparative evolution and molecular functions of hormones and
receptors.
"Chalcraft, David" <CHALCRAFTD@ecu.edu>
#bio, #evolution, #ecology
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