PhD scholarship and research project available on Tasmanian devils and facial tumour disease, School of Biological Sciences - University of Tasmania, Australia.
BACKGROUND / AIMS Tasmanian devils are currently listed as Endangered due to a fatal transmissible cancer, devil facial tumour disease (DFTD). The disease was first observed 20 years ago and has been described as a rare transmissible cancer-cell line. However, a second and independently evolved transmissible cancer (known as DFT2) was recently discovered in south-eastern Tasmania. This provides a unique opportunity to evaluate local adaptations, epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics between two contemporary transmissible cancers. The project integrates disease ecology, epidemiology and evolutionary biology to determine how individual-scale variations in tolerance to infection across tumour lineages affect host survival, reproductive output and their consequences for epidemiological processes. The project involves large field and lab work components as well as analyses of existing epidemiological and genetic data sets. The successful candidate will participate in research collaborations with an international team of researchers from Universities in Australia, United Kingdom and United States of America. CLOSING DATE Applications must be sent by March 3rd 2017. Project must start by June 30th 2017. APPLICATION PROCESS To express your interest please email Dr Rodrigo Hamede (rkham...@utas.edu.au<mailto:rkham...@utas.edu.au>): (1) a statement of research interests / background, (2) academic transcripts and scores from your degree and (3) a CV with a minimum of three professional references (names and contact information). For full project details visit the following link http://www.utas.edu.au/research/degrees/available-phd-projects/phd-projects/faculty-of-science-engineering-and-technology/biological-sciences/learning-to-live-with-cancer-local-adaptations-to-transmissible-tumours-in-tasmanian-devils Please contact Dr Rodrigo Hamede for further information (rkham...@utas.edu.au<mailto:(rkham...@utas.edu.au>) School of Biological Sciences - University of Tasmania ...................................................................................................... Dr Rodrigo Hamede | Postdoctoral Research Fellow School of Biological Sciences | University of Tasmania Private Bag 55, Hobart | Tasmania 7001 | Australia Ph: +61 3 62261890 | Fax +61 3 62262745 | Mob 0428394626 E: rkham...@utas.edu.au W: http://www.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/zoology/rodrigo-hamede ...................................................................................................... University of Tasmania Electronic Communications Policy (December, 2014). This email is confidential, and is for the intended recipient only. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution, or reliance on any of it by anyone outside the intended recipient organisation is prohibited and may be a criminal offence. Please delete if obtained in error and email confirmation to the sender. The views expressed in this email are not necessarily the views of the University of Tasmania, unless clearly intended otherwise.
