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Vous trouverez en fichier joint une description du sujet et le dossier de
candidature. Les candidats intéressés devront prendre contact avec le responsable du sujet avant le 15 mai 2009 (date limite de dépôt des candidatures auprès du responsable de
sujet).
La sélection sera réalisée sur dossier les 17 et 18 juin 2009 par la commission
des thèses du Cemagref. La prise de fonction des candidats s’effectuera le 1er novembre ou le 1er décembre 2009.
Pour toute information, les candidats potentiels peuvent me contacter
directement par courriel (anders.marell@cemagref.fr) ou par téléphone (02 38 95 04 53).
The Natural History Museum is offering a PhD studentship to start October
2009.
Closing date: Friday 13 March 2009
Send your application (full academic CV including two referees and covering letter) to
Anna Hutson,
Postgraduate Studies Administrator,
The Natural History Museum,
Department of Botany, Cromwell Road,
London SW7 5BD
Or electronically to A.Hutson@nhm.ac.uk.
Project details at:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/postgraduate/phd/studentships-2009
PhD studentships
The Centre for Conservation Ecology & Environmental Change is pleased to offer 3 fully funded PhD studentships.
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/cceec/phd_studentships.html
The final closing date for applications is 30 April 2009.
Project: European birds as a model system for predicting
epidemiology of epizootic disease
Supervisor: Prof Ian Owens, Department of Life Sciences
Project
The Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London
is funding a series of PhD studentships in climate-related research
ranging from understanding the likelihood of sudden, catastrophic
climate events to the impact on disease within ecosystems. One of
these studentships is to test the effect that changes in migration
routes may have on the spread of disease, using European birds as a
model system. The student will make extensive use of GIS databases
and analyses and will be mainly based in the Ecology and Evolution
Group at Imperial College's Silwood Park Campus, which is
approximately 20 miles South West of London, but would also have
strong links to other research groups interested in climate change
and disease. Silwood Park has a very strong reputation for research
in ecology and evolution and is home to a large group of researchers,
including approximately 200 postgraduate students.
The specific aims of the project will be to:
1. Digitally map the migratory routes of European birds.
2. Construct environmental models of migratory distributions.
3. Use climate models to predict changes in migratory routes.
4. Predict the effect of climate change on bird-borne disease.
The project would suit either a biologist interested in the effects
of climate change or a physical scientist wishing to move into the
climate impacts research area. Links to the relevant climate
expertise are available through the Grantham Institute.
Applications and further information
Applications for PhDs at Imperial College must be completed online
(see link below). Once you have submitted your application, please
email the Grantham Institute directly (granthamphd@imperial.ac.uk) so
that we can process your application. For further information please
see the following websites or contact the Campus Administrator at
Silwood Park, Mrs Diana Anderson (d.anderson@imperial.ac.uk).
Imperial College application process: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/
pgprospectus/howtoapply/applicationforms
Grantham Institute: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/climatechange
Ecology and Evolution Group at Silwood Park: http://
www3.imperial.ac.uk/biology/research/ecologyandevolution
Models for the consequences of climate change alone predict the loss of
at least 10% of all species this century, unless they can evolve to
occupy novel habitat. Models for evolution at geographical range margins
explore under what conditions such adaptation should be prevented, so
determining the position of geographical limits. According to these
models, geographical limits should be associated with steep ecological
gradients and/or increased dispersal, and should be reflected by a
decline in abundance from the centre to the edge of local or regional
distributions. Evolutionary processes will generate these patterns at
small spatial scales, which should then contribute to ecological
patterns at regional scales. As yet however, these predictions
remain
untested by empirical data.
This studentship, conducted in collaboration with Kate Jones and Ben
Collen at Zoological Society of London, will integrate evolutionary
models with ecological and phylogenetic analyses to test how well they
explain distributional limits in time and space. When can local
adaptation prevent declines in abundance? How does this vary between
taxa, at different spatial and temporal scales, and among species with
differing life histories? In particular, are the distributions of
tropical species more confined by steep ecological gradients than
temperate species? Is this an effect of population genetics, or of
constraints imposed by phylogeny? Initial analysis will focus on
high-resolution datasets on spatial abundance in butterflies, birds and
bats, data on ecological gradients, as well as on trait variation within
species.
Deadline: Monday 2nd March
Details: http://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/admiss/pgrad/studentships.htm
Contact: jon.bridle@bristol.ac.uk
The Zoological Society of London is incorporated by Royal Charter
Principal Office England. Company Number RC000749
Registered address:
Regent's Park, London, England NW1 4RY
Registered Charity in England and Wales no. 208728
Applications are invited for the following PhD projects. These full time,
three-year positions are fully funded by Microsoft Research and come with
supplementary resources for travel and other expenses, plus a laptop. All
students will be located primarily at the university listed with the
project. However, students will be co-supervised by a scientist from the
Computational Ecology and Environmental Science Group, Microsoft Research
Cambridge (UK), and so are likely to make regular visits to Cambridge. In
addition, students will have the opportunity to apply for one or more paid
internships at Microsoft Research Cambridge, to be carried out during the
course of the PhD. Additional information about each project is given below.
For further information regarding any project, please email any of the
supervisors listed below. Please note that, as a result of differential
tuition fees, projects at UK universities are open to EU / UK applicants
only.
Unifying food web structure and dynamics with metabolic theory: a general,
modular computational approach
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Reuman, Imperial College, London
(d.reuman@imperial.ac.uk)
Location: Silwood Park, Imperial College, London
MSR Supervisor: Dr Rich Williams (ricw@microsoft.com)
The other half of the equation: global variation in tree mortality
Supervisor: Prof. Oliver Phillips (o.phillips@leeds.ac.uk), Prof. Simon
Lewis (s.l.lewis@leeds.ac.uk), Dr Emanuel Gloor (e.gloor@leeds.ac.uk),
University of Leeds
Location: School of Geography, University of Leeds
MSR supervisor: Dr Drew Purves (dpurves@microsoft.com)
A data-constrained predictive model of tropical deforestation and resultant
carbon emissions (2 positions)
Supervisor: Dr Rob Ewers, Imperial College, London (r.ewers@imperial.ac.uk)
Location: Silwood Park, Imperial College, London
MSR Supervisor: Dr Drew Purves (dpurves@nmicrosoft.com)
Funding note: these 2 positions are co-funded by Microsoft Research and the
Grantham Institute for Climate Change, an Institute of Imperial College.
Data-constrained modelling of plant growth
Supervisor: Dr Lindsay Turnbull, University of Zurich
(lindsayt@uwinst.uzh.ch)
Location: Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Zurich
MSR Supervisor: Dr Drew Purves (dpurves@microsoft.com)
Modelling global plant biodiversity
Supervisors: Dr David Coomes, Cambridge University
(dac18@plantsci.cam.ac.uk) & Dr Neil Brummitt, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
(n.brummitt@kew.org)
Location: Cambridge University
MSR Supervisor: Dr Matthew Smith (mattsmi@microsoft.com)
Pattern and process at forest boundaries
Supervisor: Prof. Kevin Gaston, Univ. Sheffield (k.j.gaston@sheffield.ac.uk)
MSR Supervisors: Dr Greg McInerny and Dr Drew Purves (gregmci@microsoft.com;
dpurves@microsoft.com)
The form and function of dynamic sociality in a wild bird population
Supervisors: Prof. B Sheldon (ben.sheldon@zoo.ox.ac.uk), Dr T. Wilkin
(teddy.wilkin@zoo.ox.ac.uk), Prof. S Roberts
(stephen.roberts@some.ox.ac.uk), University of Oxford
Location: Dept. Zoology, University of Oxford
MSR Supervisor: Dr Robin Freeman (robin.freeman@live.co.uk)
Supervisors: Dr Ken Wilson, Dr Ian Hartley, Prof Roger Pickup and Dr Glenn
Rhodes
Despite the fact that avian population ecology has a long history,
remarkably little is known about the endemic pathogens of wild birds, how
they are spread, or their impact on host fitness.
This PhD studentship, based at Lancaster University, will use a range of
molecular and experimental techniques to address the following questions
about the enterobacteria of British garden birds, focusing particular
attention on a marked population of blue tits:
(1) What are the main routes of transmission for avian gut bacteria?
(2) How do different species of bacteria differ in their rates of
transmission and persistence?
(3) What are the impacts of gut bacteria on bird fitness (e.g. growth rate,
survival and egg production)?
To address these questions, the student will experimentally manipulate the
bacterial communities of blue tits using cross-fostering experiments
(switching chicks between nest boxes) and by the application of antibiotics.
Training: This studentship will combine laboratory and field methods, and
will integrate observational studies with experiments. The student will
receive training in the following areas: bird ringing, handling and
sampling; experimental design and statistical analysis; molecular
techniques, such as DNA extraction, TGGE, PCR.
Application procedure:
? Apply online at:
http://www.lec.lancs.ac.uk/postgraduate/applications/ (note eligibility
criteria)
? Contact the LEC postgraduate office at: lec.pg@lancaster.ac.uk; Tel -
01524 593478
? Informal enquiries to: Dr Ken Wilson - ken.wilson@lancaster.ac.uk
Dr Ian Hartley -
i.hartley@lancaster.ac.uk
? Deadline - March 9th 2009 (interviews April 2nd/3rd)
Durham University's Ecosystem Science group are advertising a range of competitively-funded PhD projects at the interface of behaviour and ecology.
Projects include:
# Climate change and the management of alpine ungulates
# The ontogeny of personality in grey seals (Halichoerus grypus)
# Developing spatially realistic cost functions for species dispersal routes under changing environmental conditions
# The population dynamics of an invasive species: the fallow deer (Dama dama)
# Behavioural and evolutionary ecology of lampreys - jawless archetypes in a 21st century landscape (fully funded)
To take advantage of all funding opportunities, candidates should apply by the 15th of February. Further details are available on our website:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/biological.sciences/research/groups/eco_env/studentship_opprtunities/
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Biological and Biomedical Sciences
University of Durham
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Durham DH1 3LE, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 191 334 9102 (internal: 49102)
Fax: +44 (0) 191 334 1201
http://www.dur.ac.uk/philip.stephens/welcome.htm
