PhD/MS positions:
Recruitment will start again this fall. Stay tuned.
Postdoc and lab tech positions:
Positions are currently being filled, please check again soon.
Undergraduate students:
We welcome motivated undergraduate students who want to volunteer in our lab and gain valuable research experience. Undergraduate students perform various tasks, including fish maintenance, behavioral analysis, data analysis, and lab work (microscopy, hormone measurements, etc.). Don't hesitate to drop me an email or come see me in my office to discuss research opportunities in our lab (Biosciences Building 4105). Students with strong coding (R, Python) and writing skills are especially encouraged to reach out.
Undergraduate students are actively involved in our research and often contribute to scientific papers as co-author! Below are some examples of this. Undergraduate students are indicated in bold.
Funnell, T., Fialkowski, R. & Dijkstra, P.D. Social dominance does not increase oxidative stress in a female dominance hierarchy of an African cichlid fish. Ethology 128: 15-22 link
Piefke, T., Bonnell, T.R., DeOliveira, G., Border, S.E. & Dijkstra, P.D. 2021. Social network stability is impacted by removing a dominant male in replicate dominance hierarchies of a cichlid fish. Animal Behaviour 175: 7-20 link
Fialkowski, R., Aufdemberge, P, Wright, V.D. & Dijkstra, P.D. Radical change: 2021. Radical change: temporal patterns of oxidative stress during social ascent in a dominance hierarchy. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 75, Article number: 43 link
Sawecki, J., Miros, E., Border, S.E. & Dijkstra, P.D. 2019. Reproduction and maternal care increase oxidative stress in a mouthbrooding cichlid. Behavioral Ecology 30: 1662-1671 link
Border, S.E., Piefke, T., Fialkowski, R., Tryc, M., Funnell, T., DeOliveira, G. & Dijkstra, P.D. 2019. Color change and pigmentation in a color polymorphic cichlid fish. Hydrobiologia 832:175-191 link