Graduate position: MonashU.AvianEvolution
From the Evolution Directory (EvolDir) via Twitter.
PhD Scholarships available at Monash Uni,
Melbourne, Australia Deadline: 31 May 2012
http://www.mrgs.monash.edu.au/futurestudents/researchapps/index.html
http://www.mrgs.monash.edu.au/futurestudents/eligibility/
Are you interested in pursuing a graduate career in avian behavioural
and evolutionary ecology? I offer the following projects: Life-history
trade-offs: the role of ecological immunology and oxidative stress
Interactions between mating and breeding system in Australian fairy-wrens
Avian colour signals: form and functions MHC immuno genetics and genetic
diversity Heritability of behavioural and physiological traits Please
contact me if you are interested in exploring research opportunities
in any of these research areas. My research approaches include
observational and experimental studies on mostly free-living but also
captive birds. Potential techniques include behavioural observations,
reflectance spectrometry, immune assays and manipulations, genetic/genomic
analysis, oxidative damage analyses, hormone analysis and treatment by
implants, animal models. I mainly use Australian fairy-wrens as model
organisms. Field sites are in SE-Australia (superb fairy-wrens), and in
the wild monsoonal tropics of NW-Australia (purple-crowned fairy-wrens;
Kimberley). I have a population of colour-banded birds, existing samples
(blood, plasma) and an detailed database available (purple-crowned
fairy-wrens).
This round is under-subscribed, but contact me soon if you are interested
(anne.peters@monash.edu).
Dr. Anne Peters
Senior Lecturer / ARC Future Fellow
School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
Melbourne, VIC 3168 Australia
Ph +61-(0)3-99056287
http://www.biolsci.monash.edu.au/staff/peters/index.html
My Researcher-ID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-1821-2010
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jpoOPNEAAAAJ
anne.peters@monash.edu