Graduate studenships, Tennessee, USA

Graduate studentships in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
 University of Tennessee Knoxville
 
 We are seeking highly motivated students interested in evolutionary 
 biology. The EEB department is in an exciting phase of expansion with 
 the addition of several new faculty to our dynamic group in 
 Evolutionary biology. We offer generous graduate student support at 
 both MS and PhD levels, a highly collegial and interactive 
 atmosphere, excellent computational facilities, proximity to the 
 Great Smoky Mountains National Park and other outstanding natural 
 areas, and extensive Herbarium and Fish collections. Our Mathematical 
 EEB group is exceptionally strong with many productive collaborations 
 with empiricists. See http://eeb.bio.utk.edu
 
 Faculty:
 
 Chris Boake (cboake@utk.edu http://eeb.bio.utk.edu/boake.asp)
 Sexual selection, speciation through sexual selection, animal 
 communication, behavior genetics, genotype-by-environment interaction 
 for behavior
 
 Gordon Burghardt (gburghar@utk.edu http://eeb.bio.utk.edu/ 
 burghardt.asp)
 Development and comparative evolution of behavior with emphasis on 
 natricine snakes but also turtles and monitor lizards
 
 Marguerite Butler (mabutler@utk.edu http://eeb.bio.utk.edu/ 
 butler.asp)
 Adaptation, evolution of sexual dimorphism, phylogenetic comparative 
 methods, functional morphology, biomechanics, and life history evolution
 
 Ben Fitzpatrick (benfitz@utk.edu http://www.eeb.bio.utk.edu/ 
 fitzpatrick.asp)
 Population genetics, speciation, local adaptation, hybrid zones, 
 and functional ecology
 
 James Fordyce (jfordyce@utk.edu http://eeb.bio.utk.edu/fordyce.asp)
 Plant-insect interactions, local adaptation and coevolution, 
 chemical ecology, life history evolution, geographic variation in 
 ecological interactions
 
 Sergey Gavrilets (gavrila@tiem.utk.edu http://www.tiem.utk.edu/ 
 ~gavrila)
 Theoretical evolutionary biology, speciation, sexual conflict, 
 coevolution, macroevolution, hybrid zones, phenotypic plasticity, 
 quantitative traits, cultural evolution
 
 Mike Gilchrist (mikeg@utk.edu http://eeb.bio.utk.edu/gilchrist.asp)
 Viral & immune response co/evolution, life-history strategies, 
 condon usage bias, and bioinformatics
 
 Karen Hughes (khughes@utk.edu http://eeb.bio.utk.edu/hughes.asp)
 Vicariance biogeography in fungi, Evolution of basidiomycete fungi 
 using molecular tools, the fungal All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory in 
 the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
 
 Gary McCracken (gmccrack@utk.edu http://eeb.bio.utk.edu/ 
 mccracken.asp)
 Ecological and evolutionary genetics, population biology, behavior. 
 Current research concerns feeding behavior and the effects of bats on 
 ecosystem function, and the ecological influences on rabies 
 infections in bats.
 
 Susan Riechert (sriecher@utk.edu http://eeb.bio.utk.edu/riechert.asp)
 Behavioral ecology, evolutionary game theory, gene flow limitation 
 of local adaptation. Current work includes quantitative genetic 
 studies of social and life history traits and latitudinal studies of 
 social structure in spider systems.
 
 Ed Schilling (eschilling@utk.edu http://eeb.bio.utk.edu/ 
 schilling.asp)
 Higher plant systematics with a focus on members of the sunflower 
 family (Asteraceae)
 
 Dan Simberloff (dsimberloff@utk.edu http://eeb.bio.utk.edu/ 
 simberloff.asp)
 Evolution and coevolution of introduced and native species following 
 invasion, morphological evolution of vertebrates in response to 
 varying community membership, conservation biology
 
 Randy Small (rsmall@utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~rsmall)
 Plant molecular systematics and molecular evolution, relative 
 utility of different data sets for phylogenetics, polyploidy and 
 speciation.
 
 Joe Williams (joewill@utk.edu http://eeb.bio.utk.edu/williams.asp)
 Plant reproductive evolution, embryology, evolution of development, 
 speciation and hybridization, polyploidy, and population genetics
 
 Contact faculty directly with a letter of interest and C.V. Deadline 
 for application is Jan. 6, 2005. Applications must be made to both 
 the department and the graduate school. Please see http:// 
 eeb.bio.utk.edu/gradappl.asp
 
 ________________________________________________________________________ 
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 Marguerite A. Butler
 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
 University of Tennessee
 569 Dabney Hall
 Knoxville, TN 37996-1610
 
 Phone: 865-974-7894
 Lab: 865-946-1764
 FAX: 865-974-3067
 http://eeb.bio.utk.edu/butler.asp