PhD positions in Population Genetics, Austria

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New positions are available at *The Vienna Graduate School of Population

Genetics:* the application deadline is *May 30, 2013*:

Over the past years, Vienna has developed into one of the leading centres

of population genetics. The Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics

has been founded to provide a training opportunity for PhD students to

build on this excellent on site expertise.

Applications from highly motivated and outstanding students with a

background in one of the following disciplines will be considered:

bioinformatics, statistics, evolutionary genetics, functional genetics,

theoretical and experimental population genetics. Students from related

disciplines, such as physics or mathematics are also welcome to apply.

Topics include:

– Analysing next generation sequencing data and understanding the

sampling properties of high throughput technologies

– The 1001 Genomes Project: Population genetics of *Arabidopsis thaliana*

– Speciation genetics in European columbines (*Aquilegia*)

– Mutagenesis in the germline with age

– Population genetic inference using Pool-Seq data

– Evolution of gene expression in *Drosophila*

– Speciation genomics: mapping of hybrid incompatibilities

– Inference of selection from time series data

– Understanding the ecology and genetics of an adaptive trait in *

Drosophila* embryos

– Mathematical models of spatially varying selection in subdivided

populations

– Statistical methods for detecting selective sweeps using genome-

wide data

– The footprint of adaptive gene introgression after secondary contact

– Probabilistic models for the population genetics of molecular evolution

– Inferring selection using *Drosophila* whole genome sequence data

Only complete applications (CV, motivation letter, university certificates,

indication of the two preferred topics in a single pdf) received by
30.05.2013 will be considered. Two letters of recommendation need to be

sent directly by the referees.

All information about the about available topics, the training program and

the application procedure can be found at www.popgen-vienna.at

PhD positions in Population Genetics, Austria