Over the past years, Vienna has developed into one of the leading centers of population genetics. The Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics has been founded to provide a training opportunity for PhD students that builds on this outstanding on site expertise.
We invite applications from highly motivated and outstanding students with a background in one of the following disciplines: 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.
Available topics include:
- New algorithm and models to analyze population genetic massive parallel sequence data
- The footprint of adaptive gene introgression after secondary contact
- Probabilistic models for the population genetics of molecular evolution
- The genetics of two closely related species of Aquilegia
- Evolution of gene expression in Drosophila
- Association mapping in outbred Drosophila populations
- Measuring interspecific gene flow by massively parallel sequencing
- Genetic basis of local adaptation
- Admixture mapping with Bayesian probabilistic models for genome wide population genetic data
- Mathematical models of spatially varying selection in subdivided populations
- Functionally significant genetic variation in lifespan in natural populations
- Statistical methods for detecting selective sweeps using genome-wide data
- Population genetic estimators from NGS data
Applications need to be received by 13.02.2011 and include CV, motivation letter, university certificates and an indication of the two preferred topics in a single pdf. Two letters of recommendation need to be sent directly by the referees.
All information about the about the Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics, the training program and the application procedure can be found at www.popgen-vienna.at
We invite applications from highly motivated and outstanding students with a background in one of the following disciplines: 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.
Available topics include:
- New algorithm and models to analyze population genetic massive parallel sequence data
- The footprint of adaptive gene introgression after secondary contact
- Probabilistic models for the population genetics of molecular evolution
- The genetics of two closely related species of Aquilegia
- Evolution of gene expression in Drosophila
- Association mapping in outbred Drosophila populations
- Measuring interspecific gene flow by massively parallel sequencing
- Genetic basis of local adaptation
- Admixture mapping with Bayesian probabilistic models for genome wide population genetic data
- Mathematical models of spatially varying selection in subdivided populations
- Functionally significant genetic variation in lifespan in natural populations
- Statistical methods for detecting selective sweeps using genome-wide data
- Population genetic estimators from NGS data
Applications need to be received by 13.02.2011 and include CV, motivation letter, university certificates and an indication of the two preferred topics in a single pdf. Two letters of recommendation need to be sent directly by the referees.
All information about the about the Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics, the training program and the application procedure can be found at www.popgen-vienna.at