Nate Hardy is looking for two graduate students (either PhD or MS) to join his research group at Auburn University and work on the evolutionary biodiversity of sap-sucking bugs. He needs help with two projects: 1) Estimating the aphid phylogeny and using it to figure out what drives speciation in plant-eating insects. 2) Conducting selection experiments and gene expression analyses to figure out how plant-eating insects evolve their diets. Please see the Hardy Lab website (http://hardylab.skullisland.info/) for a more detailed overview of the research program.
Students with an interest in any of the following subjects are encouraged to apply: speciation, species diversity, phylogenomics, comparative phylogenetics, evolutionary ecology, experimental evolution, and transcriptomics. Four years of support are available for PhD students and two years for MS students, through graduate research fellowships that include a tuition waiver, health benefits and a competitive stipend. The start date for both positions is August 18, the beginning of the 2017 Fall Semester. If you are interested, please send a CV and a short statement of your research interests (less than 500 words) to Nate Hardy, n...@auburn.edu. Feel free to contact him by email for further information. Please also apply to the Auburn Graduate School (http://graduate.auburn.edu/prospective- students/application-instructions/). Review of applicants will start on March 24. The positions will stay open until filled. Dr Nate B Hardy Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology Auburn University Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849 n...@auburn.edu
