From mycalesis at yahoo.com Wed Dec 3 18:02:46 2008 From: mycalesis at yahoo.com (Carlos Pena) Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:02:46 +0100 Subject: [TABD] Graduate Student Assistantship in Bioinformatics and Entomology In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4936C9C6.8040306@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 19:53:55 -0600 From: "Mary Liz Jameson" Subject: [Taxacom] Graduate Student Position To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu *Graduate Student Assistantship in Bioinformatics and Entomology* A self-motivated candidate is sought for an M.S. research assistantship to study bioinformatics and entomology at Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA. The successful candidate will assist in a trans-disciplinary research that involves collaboration with biodiversity scientists (systematists), genomists, and computer scientists. The research aims to develop cyberinfrastructure tools that facilitate investigation of broad, over-arching questions in the biological sciences by uniting numerous, heterogeneous databases and creating bioinformatics tools that allow access to biodiversity and genomics data. Success of this research will have broad application to biological sciences, human health, and climate change. The student will focus on one component of the research: biodiversity science using entomological data. The student will address conservation, evolution, or invasive species using data and tools that are part of the broad research agenda. The ideal student for this position is self-motivated, works well independently, is skilled with computers, and has a strong interest in entomology, evolutionary biology, and bioinformatics. The successful applicant will have a strong commitment to entomology and desire to learn a range of tools/techniques/methods. A willingness to conduct field research in the Latin America is preferred. Proficiency in oral and written English required. The student will be expected to develop a research program that uses focal cyberinfrastructure tools and biodiversity databases. Applicants should have a B.S. in biology. The successful applicant will receive a stipend, full tuition remission, and partial health benefits. Deadline for applications is 15 June 2009, but early applications are encouraged. The assistantship will begin in summer or fall 2009. Interested applicants should email CV, transcript, test scores, and a letter describing your research interests to Dr. Mary Liz Jameson (maryliz.jameson at gmail.com). Wichita State University is a metropolitan research-intensive university set in a suburban area of the largest city in Kansas and attracts a diverse student body. Wichita offers many opportunities for cultural/artistic activities and low cost-of-living. The Department of Biological Sciences at WSU includes core facilities in environmental biology, imaging and bioinformatics, and maintains an animal care facility and greenhouse. Previous graduate students have gone on to Ph.D. programs at a number of major institutions or have found employment with state or federal management agencies. More information about the Department, including a complete list of departmental facilities, and current Graduate Faculty and their teaching and research interests is available on our web site at: http://www.wichita.edu/biology/. Information about graduate school at WSU is available at http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=gradschool. For additional information, contact: Mary Liz Jameson, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA, 316-440-7519, maryliz.jameson at gmail.com PROFESSORS, PLEASE ALERT ANY POTENTIAL CANDIDATES OF THIS OPPORTUNITY. THANK YOU. From ivonand_30 at hotmail.com Wed Dec 3 22:00:32 2008 From: ivonand_30 at hotmail.com (ivon andrea =?iso-8859-1?Q?bola=F1os?= martinez) Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:00:32 +0100 Subject: [TABD] INFORMACION Message-ID: <20081203222434901365bf35@webmail.wiko-berlin.de> hola soy la estudiante de la universidad del Cauca Colombia, le? el programa del curso de sptiembre de 2007 y hay una parte sobre la biologia de Ithomiinae que es muy importante para desarrollar mi trabajo de grado. No se si es posible obtener el correo de alguno de los conferencistas es muy importante para mi esa informacion puesto que hay muy poca divulgacion de resultados acerca del tema . O CONTACTARME CON ALGUIEN DEL PARQUE pODOCARPUS DONDE SE HA TRABAJADO CON ITHOMIINAE. MUCHAS GRACIAS POR SU ATENCION Y COLABORACION. IVON ANDREA BOLA?OS MARTINEZ ESTUDIANTE UNIVERSIDAD DEL CAUCA COLOMBIA From B.Huertas at nhm.ac.uk Mon Dec 15 13:27:52 2008 From: B.Huertas at nhm.ac.uk (Blanca Huertas) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:27:52 -0000 Subject: [TABD] oportunidades de trabajo en mariposas Message-ID: Amigos de la red, He recibido esta oportunidad -abajo- y la envio para quienes de ustedes pueda interesar. Por favor contestar a la persona del mensaje, no a este email, gracias. Aprovecho la oportunidad para enviarles un grato saludo en estas festividades y desearles a todos ustedes lo mejor en el 2009! Feliz Navidad y Prospero 2009.! Blanca **************************** Blanca Huertas MSc DIC Curator (Lepidoptera) Entomology Department The Natural History Museum 75 Kimber Road, Wandsworth SW18 4NX, London, UK. Tel. +44 (0) 20 7942 6215 Fax. +44 (0) 20 8871 4940 Museum website www.nhm.ac.uk TABDProject www.andeanbutterflies.org Job offer for a postdoc at the Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: "Behavioural ecology of butterfly movements: a matter of perception?" We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who could join us for a period of 12 months starting in Jan-Mar 2009 (exact starting date is negotiable). We aim to develop new and stimulating behavioural research on the significance of perceptual range within a context of insect dispersal in fragmented landscapes. Butterflies are used as model system for a series of experiments in the lab and in the field. Earlier work on speckled woods (Pararge aegeria L.) has suggested intriguing differences in the response distance to target habitat in individuals from continuous forest and individuals from fragmented agricultural landscape (Merckx & Van Dyck 2007. Anim. Behav. 74: 1029-1037). We want to better understand the nature of environmental cues butterflies respond to during traveling across the landscape matrix. Therefore we want to develop a challenging evolutionary ecological research program with a strong emphasis on perceptual differences relative to landscape type. We will also explore some eco-physiological aspects. Another postdoc will also join our team to work in this field, so it will be a collaborative project. There will be frequent interactions with the lab-members of other lines of research. You will earn a postdoc grant from our University (UCL). Candidates should have excellent CV (i.e., several publications in outstanding behavioural, ecological, conservation or evolutionary journals, experience with observational and experimental behavioural research). Only researchers who have been outside Belgium for at least the last two years can apply for this position. You will work within a cluster of two young research teams at the Biodiversity Research Centre of the Universit? catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium. The Behavioural Ecology and Conservation Group headed by Hans Van Dyck (www.ecol.ucl.ac.be/ecco/en) and the Quantitative Conservation Biology Group headed by Nicolas Schtickzelle (www.uclouvain.be/quant-cons-biol). Van Dyck's lab addresses several issues within the broad field of evolution in anthropogenic landscapes (combining behavioural ecology, life history biology, thermal ecology, landscape ecology and conservation). Schtickzelle's lab addresses conservation issues using quantitative approaches like population viability analysis. Both labs have a common and complementary interest in the process of dispersal and in resource-based habitat approaches. Our university is in the French-speaking part of Belgium (Louvain-la-Neuve, close to Brussels). Lab meetings and other scientific meetings are in English, some knowledge of French would be easy. If you are interested, please send an e-mail message in which you explain why you would like to join us and attach your CV (including a full publication list and a reference person) as a separate document. Please submit your file no later than December, 25th 2008. Prof. Hans Van Dyck, Behavioural Ecology & Conservation Group (hans.vandyck at uclouvain.be) Prof. Nicolas Schtickzelle, Quantitative Conservation Biology Group (nicolas.schtickzelle at uclouvain.be) Prof. Nicolas Schtickzelle Research Associate (FNRS) & Lecturer Quantitative Conservation Biology Biodiversity Research Centre Universite catholique de Louvain Croix du Sud 4 B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium phone : +32 10 47 20 52 fax : +32 10 47 34 90 office: building Carnoy, room C.157 nicolas.schtickzelle at uclouvain.be http://www.uclouvain.be/quant-cons-biol nicolas.schtickzelle at uclouvain.be -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: