Uppsala universitet söker en doktorand till programmet för Systematisk biologi där arbetet kommer att handla om systematik hos kiselsvampar (Demospongiae, Porifera). Mer information och ansökan hittar man på http://www.uu.se/jobb/doktorander/annonsvisning?tarContentId=236599&languageId=3
TTFN,
Mikael
Post-doctoral researcher
A postdoc position is available in the research group of Ulf Jondelius at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm.
We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc with interest in animal evolution for a project using data from genome sequencing of microscopic marine worms (Acoelomorpha). Acoelomorpha are simple animals lacking many features present in other Bilateria (e.g. circulatory system, body cavity, excretory organs). Their phylogenetic position is highly contested: they have been proposed to be either the earliest extant bilaterians, part of the flatworms, or deuterostomes closely related to echinoderms and hemichordates. The conflicting hypotheses imply widely disparate interpretations of their morphological evolution as either primitively simple or secondarily reduced in complexity. We will sample genomic data to cover acoelomorph diversity aiming to reconstruct their phylogenetic position within the Metazoa and study the structure of the genomes expecting to find either a simple basal metazoan genome or higher bilaterian and deuterostome signatures. The succesful candidate will work on assembly and analysis of genomes from several acoelomorph species together with the PI, collaborators, students, and technicians and will be responsible for analyzing results, writing manuscripts, and contributing to the development of the project.
The project is a collaboration with SciLife lab in Stockholm and Uppsala and colleagues at the Sars Centre in Bergen, Norway.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate has a recent PhD in Bioinformatics, Genomics, Molecular or Evolutionary biology or related fields, experience in analyzing next-generation DNA sequence data, and a record of publishing in scientific journals. Programming experience in a scripting language (such as Python or Perl) is desirable.
Starting date is September 1, 2013. The appointment is for two years.
Informal inquiries should be directed at Ulf Jondelius (ulf.jondelius@nrm.se). The union representatives are Bodil Kajrup, SACO-S and Yvonne Arremo, ST can be reached at telephone number + 46 8 519 540 00.
How to apply: Applicants should submit (1) a cover letter describing your
research interests and background, (2) a detailed CV (including
publications), and (3) the contact details of three references as a single pdf document to rekrytering@nrm.se or to Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, SE 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden, no later than May 10, 2013. Mark your application with dnr 2.3.1-144-2013
The Museum of Natural History and Archaeology in Trondheim, Norway has recently announced an open PhD-position. The successful candidate will study evolutionary processes associated with dispersal within, and hybridization between, closely related species of peat mosses (Sphagnum).
For more information on the position and how to apply, please visit http://www.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=90772
Best regards,
Torbjørn
TWO NEW POSITIONS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Available at http://antonelli-lab.net (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Closing date: February 28, 2013
1) PhD Position. Fixed-term employment, four years
You will test competing hypotheses of diversification for explaining the outstanding diversity in tropical America (including soil specialisation, temperature increases, polyploidy, habitat shifts, biome conservatism and range expansion). To achieve this goal you will carry out extensive fieldwork in Latin America, especially the tropical Andes and Amazonia, to collect plant and soil samples. You will then produce molecular data using next-generation sequencing techniques. Your analyses will include estimation of phylogenies, divergence times, species trees from gene trees, diversification rates, species distribution modelling, and biogeographic reconstructions.
The choice of plant group will depend on the candidate’s previous experience and interests (e.g. during the Masters project). Ideally, the study group should have a wide Neotropical distribution with a centre of species diversity in northern South America, have been recently revised taxonomically, be already relatively well collected, and included in phylogenetic analyses. Please indicate your suggestion of plant group in the motivation letter (this is recommended but not mandatory).
Good communication skills (written and spoken) in English are necessary. Priority will be given to those candidates who have co-authored at least one scientific publication. Fieldwork experience in the tropics, experience working with molecular phylogenetics and/or next-generation sequence data, and language skills in Spanish and/or Portuguese is advantageous. We are seeking a candidate who is independent, self-motivated, and interested in the use or development of new methods and approaches, in short, a person willing to go beyond the state-of-the-art in the field. We will attach great importance to personal characteristics and independence in learning and working, creativity and documented productivity.
For more information and on-line application click HERE
2) Post-doc. Fixed-term employment, two years
You will carry out research focused on speciation mechanisms in Amazonian plants, particularly palms. Although sympatric speciation is recognized as a driver of ”island” biodiversity (Howea palms, Cichlid fish, apple maggots), it remains to be discovered how it contributes to the mega-biodiversity in Amazonia. The understory palm Geonoma macrostachys is highly suited for this study because significant progress has been made to quantify and understand its complex variation. Responsibilities include extensive fieldwork across western Amazonia (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru); development of next-generation sequence data, analyses and publications; and the training and supervision of graduate students.
Highest priority will be given to candidates with a strong publication record who have fieldwork experience in the tropics and experience with next-generation sequence data. Due to intensive fieldwork in Latin America good language skills in Spanish and/or Portuguese is necessary as well as good communication skills (written and spoken) in English.
A strong background in phylogenetics, biogeography, and species delimitation as well as research experience with palms (taxonomy, phylogenetics, and/or ecology) is meritorious.
We are seeking a candidate who is independent, self-motivated, and interested in the use or development of new methods and approaches, in short, a person willing to go beyond the state-of-the-art in the field. We will attach great importance to personal characteristics and independence in learning and working, creativity and documented productivity.
For more information and on-line application click HERE
Best wishes
Ett 12 månaders jobb för en disputerad lichenolog finns tillgängligt vid Naturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo. Se länken nedan för utlysning och information!
http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/898883/71922?iso=3Dno
The Natural History Museum of Denmark is searching for a Collections Manager to help coordinate and oversee its zoological, botanical, palaeontological, and geological collections. This position will be supervised by the Head of Collections and is open from April 1st 2013.
About the Natural History Museum of Denmark
The Natural History Museum of Denmark is the Danish national museum for zoology, botany and geology, and it contains large global scientific collections of preserved animals, plants, fossils, and minerals. In its current form the museum was established on January 1, 2004 by the merging of four long-standing institutions: the Botanic Garden, the Botanical Museum & Central Library, the Geological Museum, and the Zoological Museum.
Even though the Natural History Museum of Denmark is young, the history of the individual departments and collections can be traced back to the 17th century. A new museum of natural history in the Botanical Garden is being planned (http://nyt.snm.ku.dk/english/) and will present the museum with a number of big challenges in relation to the coming move of the collections, the establishment of new storage facilities and new exhibits.
The collection support staff collaborates with the Head of Collections, the scientific curators of the museum and the members of the exhibitions department in the curation of specimens, including preparation, preservation, registration, etc. The collection support staff is organized in a cross-cutting unit under the Head of Collections. The Natural History Museum of Denmark is part of the Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen, and therefore host and supervise undergraduate, graduate and PhD students as well as postdocs that use the museum collections for their research. The museum is an international institution with many foreign students and researchers and English is widely used as working language.
Primary tasks
* To assist the Head of Collections with the coordination and management of the zoological, botanical, and geological collections.
* To help facilitate the use of these collections by all users, e.g., NHMD Curators and other Scientific Staff, exhibits, students, visiting scientists, and to support the collection management activities of all divisions.
The Collections Manager’s specific responsibilities will include:
* Management and coordination of collection curation in conformance with NHMD policies and procedures.
* Help define, formulate and prepare collection management policies, standards and procedures.
* Actively participate and if required head various collection management committees.
* Represent the Head of Collection in various committees and professional organizations.
* Plan, coordinate and implement the move of collections from the old museums storages to new facilities when the new museum is built.
* Participate in the planning and coordination of new collection facilities in the new museum.
* Assist with grant-writing to support museum operations and improvements.
* Coordinate and produce internal as well as external reports on collection matters.
* Supervision and coordination of collections compliance activities including internal and external reports.
* Help coordinate the stockroom and the purchase of supplies for collection management.
* Coordinate the conservation care of the collections.
* Administrate the loan database at NHMD (users, passwords, reports etc.).
* Initiate and coordinate relevant tests and measurements of materials and equipment.
* Other collection related duties as required.
* If required assist with the curation of selected collection(s) (depending on professional background).
* If desired participate in fieldwork in Denmark and abroad.
Qualifications
* MSc in biology, geology, conservation and restoration or related field is required;
* Collections management experience (from natural history museums).
* Relevant computer skills.
* Must be self-directed and have the ability to work independently.
* Strong social and collaborative skills.
* Good English language skills are required (spoken and written).
* Good abilities to communicate orally as well as in writing.
* Driving license is advantageous.
Additional information
More information about the position can be obtained by contacting the Head of collections, Nikolaj Scharff (phone: +45 35 32 11 07; e-mail: nscharff@snm.ku.dk). More general information about the Natural History Museum of Denmark is available from our website http://www.snm.ku.dk.
Salary and employment conditions are in accordance with the collective agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Academic Trade Union. It is possible to negotiate additional salary according to documented previous experience and special qualifications.
Applications
Only electronic applications are accepted. Applications can be submitted in both English and Danish. Send the application including a C.V. and documentation of relevant experience by clicking the ”Apply online”-button at http://employment.ku.dk/administrative/. Deadline for applications is Friday February 15 2013.
The University of Copenhagen welcomes applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of personal background.
A two-year postdoctoral position is available in the Department of Cryptogamic Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm. The position is placed within professor Mats Wedin’s working group and is a part of the project area “Fungal phylogeny and evolution” funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR).
The project is about fungi in the Stictidaceae (Ostropales, Ascomycota), a group containing saprotrophic, parasitic and lichenized fungi, focussing on some species that can live either as saprotrophs or as lichens, depending on the substrate they grow on. This is a phenomenon we have coined “optional lichenization”. We have also suggested that the fungus, at or soon after the germination of the fungal spore, irreversibly initiate either way of life. The postdoc will specifically study microbial and photobiont diversity in Schizoxylon albescens. Schizoxylon albescens constitutes two genetically distinct cryptic species that both show optional lichenization, and Schizoxylon when lichenized is probably associated with a consortium of algae, only some of which are potential “true” photobionts. The simple lichen associations in Schizoxylon and other related Stictidaceae will be a useful model system to study fungal-algal-microbial interactions.
The bacterial and photobiont communities in Schizoxylon will be compared with communities in Populus-bark and wood (potential substrates of the fungus) and with other lichen-associated bacterial communities described in the literature. This will be done using established pyrosequencing methods based on targeted PCR-amplification with bar-coded primers to separate samples, utilizing a GS Junior next-generation-sequencing machine available in-house. The postdoc will utilize the data to test several hypotheses.
Candidates have a recent PhD in systematics/evolutionary biology or similar, preferably with experience of pyrosequencing and bioinformatics. A demonstrated publication record and excellent English communication and writing skills are expected. Good knowledge in molecular lab work, phylogenetics and light microscopy are required, and experience in lichenology, mycology, and field work is an advantage. A valid driving licence is required.
The starting date is May 1st 2013. The appointment is for two years.
For more information please contact professor Mats Wedin (mats.wedin@nrm.se). Union representatives are Bodil Kajrup, SACO-S and Yvonne Arremo, ST. All can be reached at telephone number + 46 8 519 540 00.
Mark your application, including a cover letter outlining relevant background, experience and motivation, your CV including a list of publications, contact information for two references, and copies of educational certificates, with dnr 2.3.1-9-2013, and send it as a single pdf document to rekrytering@nrm.se or to the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, SE 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden, no later than February 28th, 2013.
Fixed term for 24 months, available from 1 February 2013
This post is part of the NERC funded project ‘Niche Evolution of South American Trees and its Consequences’. The project aims to make a fundamental advance in our knowledge of the processes that have created patterns of diversity in the tropics by gaining a better understanding of the evolutionary timing and rate of biome switching in plant lineages. Such patterns of biome switching are not only of interest for studies of plant diversification, but also have far-reaching implications for understanding forest ecology and the conservation of evolutionary (phylogenetic) diversity as a result of land-use or climate change.
The project focuses on the rain forest, seasonally dry forest and savanna biomes of South America, and the postdoc will take a leading role in fieldwork, data generation, data analysis and paper-writing.
The project aims to:
These datasets will then be used to understanding the timing, rate and nature of biome switching and niche evolution in South American trees.
You will have a completed or soon to be completed (by start of the post) PhD with a background in plant evolution, systematics, ecology, or biogeography. You will need to have fieldwork experience and good skills in quantitative scientific methods, allied to good communication skills. An ability to work in an international team will also be needed, along with some level of fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese.
The work will be based in the UK at Leeds (first 9 months) and Edinburgh (subsequent 15 months) although you will work closely with all partners involved in the project in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia. The first part of the post will focus mainly on fieldwork and data collection and the second part principally on data analysis and writing.
Further details concerning the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh can be found at http://www.rbge.org.uk/ and for the School of Geography, University of Leeds at: www.geog.leeds.ac.uk.
Salary £31,000- £34,000 p.a.
Informal enquiries may be made to Prof Toby Pennington (t.pennington@rbge.ac.uk; +44 (0)131 248 2818), Dr Kyle Dexter (kgdexter@gmail.com, +44 (0) 131 248 2964) and/or Dr Tim Baker (T.R.Baker@leeds.ac.uk+44 (0)113 343 8352).
A job description and person specification can be downloaded from www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/vacancies.
To apply, please send a covering letter explaining your suitability for the post and a CV as well as a completed equal opportunities questionnaire to the HR Team at The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20a Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 3LR or by e-mail to at recruitment@rbge.org.uk. Applications should be received no later than Monday, 17 December 2012.
If you have not heard from us by 31 January 2013, please assume your application has been unsuccessful. No recruitment agencies please.
There is currently an open PhD-postition in systematics on Chironomidae (Diptera) at NTNU Museum of Natural History and Archaeology in Trondheim. Please see this address for more information and how to apply: http://www.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=87295
Best regards
Torbjørn
Dr. Torbjørn Ekrem
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Museum of Natural History and Archaeology
NO-7491 Trondheim
Norway
Two new faculty positions are available at the Museum of Natural History and Archaeology, Norwegian University of Science and Techonology, Trondheim, Norway. Please follow the below links for more information about the positions and how to apply:
Associate professor in biosystematics of plants: www.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=87134
Professor/associate professor in biodiversity: www.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=87132
Torbjørn Ekrem (Associate professor, NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet)