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POSITIONS VACANT
Honours Project: Macquarie University, Brown Lab
Project outline:Little is known about the behaviour of the iconic platypus. To facilitate behavioural monitoring, this project will investigate the response of platypus to various wavelengths of light. The project will be jointly run and funded by the Taronga Zoo and Macquarie University.
Contact:Culum.Brown@mq.edu.au
PhD Opportunities: Monash Univeristy, Chapple Lab (Evolutionary and Invasion Biology)
Two PhD projects will be offered from 2012 in the Evolutionary & Invasion Biology research group at Monash University (http://www.biolsci.monash.edu.au/staff/chapple/). The two projects are part of a long-term research project on the invasion dynamics of the delicate skink, Lampropholis delicata. The delicate skink is native to eastern Australia,but has successfully invaded several regions of the Pacific (New Zealand, Hawaiian Islands, Lord Howe Island). Previous research in the group has used molecular markers to identify the source population(s) for each introduction, examined post-introduction molecular and morphological evolution, and investigated the behavioural traits that enhance the likelihood of human-assisted dispersal download flyer
PhD Opportunity: Macquarie University, Herberstein Lab
A PhD scholarship funded by Macquarie University is available to begin this coming summer. The candidate could work on any one of a broad range of questions on grasshoppers in the Australian alps, spanning fields such as phylogenetics, taxonomy, behaviour, morphometrics, climate change, and the evolution of fighting and colour change. download flyer.
Contacts:
Marie Herberstein:marie.herberstein@mq.edu.au,visit lab website
Kate Umbers: kate.umbers@anu.edu.au,visit Kate’s website
PhD Opportunities: UWA Centre for Evolutionary Biology
Two PhD candidates are sought for projects on sexual selection, sexual conflict and the evolution of polyandry in the Centre for Evolutionary Biology, The University of Western Australia, under the supervision of Australian Research Fellow Dr. Francisco Garcia-Gonzalez. download flyer.
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
The 2012 ASSAB Conference will be held from the 26th to 28th of June. We will be hosted by Deakin University at Geelong Botanic Gardens,Victoria. More details coming soon(ish)…
Evolution 2012 6th - 10th July, University of Ottawa, Canada
This landmark event will bring together five of the world’s largest academic societies devoted to the study of ecology and evolutionary biology: the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE), the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB)
14th Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
for more information go to the conference website
