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Post date: Dec 5, 2015 10:59:24 PM
From: <evoldir@evol.biology.mcmaster.ca>
Date: Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 1:08 AM
Subject: Graduate position: UConnecticut.FlowerEvolution
Ph.D. positions in Genetics, Development, and Evolution of Flower
Diversification at the University of Connecticut
Adviser: Yao-Wu Yuan
The monkeyflower lab at the University of Connecticut
(http://monkeyflower.uconn.edu/) seeks creative and motivated PhD
students to join us in the Fall of 2016. Our group is interested in how
and why organisms evolve so many beautiful forms in nature. We study
flower diversification as a representation of the general problem of
phenotypic evolution. We have developed many genetic and genomic
resources and functional tools in a classical ecological and
evolutionary model system, monkeyflowers (Mimulus), so that we can
integrate hard-core genetics, developmental biology, and evolutionary
ecology to actually address this problem.
Ongoing projects in the lab include: (1) Regulation of carotenoid
pigmentation in flowers; (2) Molecular mechanisms of pattern formation:
How to spot a flower? (3) Genetic bases of adaptive peak shift:
Parallel switches between purple/pink and yellow flowers that are
pollinated by bees; (4) Genetics of pollinator-mediated speciation; (5)
Developmental genetics of corolla tube formation and elaboration. New
students can either join the ongoing projects or develop their own
projects related to our research interests, or do a combination of both
(i.e. join an ongoing project in the first year or so while developing
their own ideas). Backgrounds in one or more of the following areas are
desired: genetics, genomics, developmental biology, evolution,
plant-pollinator interactions, plant systematics, computer modeling of
biological processes.
Financial support for Ph.D. students in our EEB department is available
from research assistantships, teaching assistantships, and university
fellowships. Interested candidates should send an email describing
their motivation and research interests along with a CV to Yaowu Yuan
*About the University of Connecticut*
The University of Connecticut (UConn) has been one of the nation’s
leading public institutions since its founding in 1881. Located in
Storrs, UConn's main campus is situated in the picturesque rolling
forests and fields quintessential of New England, yet is only 30
minutes from Hartford, and has close connections to Providence, Boston
and New York City. The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
consists of over 30 faculty and 60 graduate students with research
spanning nearly all major groups of organisms. The Department maintains
close ties with the Departments of Molecular and Cell Biology,
Physiology and Neurobiology, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture,
Animal Science, Marine Sciences, and the Institute for Systems
Genomics, which together comprise one of the largest groups of
biologists in the Northeast.
Yaowu Yuan
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-3043, U.S.A.
Tel: 860-486-3469
http://monkeyflower.uconn.edu/
Yaowu Yuan <yuan.colreeze@gmail.com>
#bio, #botany, #evolution
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