Postdoctoral Fellow in Evolutionary Biology at University of Otago, New Zealand -PhD biological sciences -Apply

Description & Details: pplications are invited for this full-time, fixed-term position of Postdoctoral Fellow in Evolutionary Biology within the Department of Zoology at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. This position in the laboratory of Professor Hamish G. Spencer is funded by the Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand and is available for three years.

The project is entitled “Epigenetics and Evolutionary Theory.” Just as natural populations exhibit genetic variation, so too do they harbour epigenetic variation, some of which is transmitted from one generation to the next. This project asks how we can explain this transgenerationally inherited epigenetic variation in natural populations and what might be the consequences for evolution. The researchers will construct and analyse novel mathematical models to investigate these matters, validating these models with data from real examples, and using the models to make novel predictions about the properties of epigenetic variation in nature.

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