Cellular and molecular bases of neural circuit and behavioural evolution The Francis Crick Institute in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity in chemical communication and speciation at the University of St Andrews This EASTBIO-funded PhD project in the School of Biology focuses on pheromones, cuticular hydrocarbons, evolutionary genetics, bioinformatics, behavioural ecology, and speciation biology . The project is based at the University of St Andrews and is supervised by Prof Mike Ritchie and Dr N Bailey . The research asks how divergence in pheromone detection and production contributes to sexual isolation and rapid...

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in Evolutionary Genomics of Mimicry in Neotropical Catfishes , hosted by the School of Biological Sciences and supervised by Dr Martin Taylor . This project explores how mimicry evolves in Neotropical Corydoradinae catfishes, using comparative and population genomics to study repeated origins of similar colour patterns across more than 30 mimicry communities in South America. The research asks which genomic regions show divergent selection, whethe...

University of Exeter is advertising a Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow in evolutionary modelling , social evolution , learning , and social structure at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation on the Penryn Campus, United Kingdom. The project is part of a NERC-funded grant, “The co-evolution of learning and social structure: how minds shape societies and societies shape minds” , and focuses on the theoretical side of the work. The successful candidate will develop evolutionary models , p...

The University of Exeter is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate or Fellow to study the evolution of intergroup conflict in animal societies. The UKRI-funded ERC Advanced Grant project uses the basal termite Zootermopsis angusticollis as a model system. The successful researcher will investigate how conflict between groups influences individual and colony social behaviour, development and life history through controlled laboratory experiments, fieldwork, advanced tracking techn...

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in the School of Biological Sciences on Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance of Responses to Environmental Stress . This project investigates how environmental stress responses may be transmitted across generations through non-genetic / epigenetic inheritance . Using Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system, the research will examine whether key cellular stress responses can be inherited, whether this improves survival and fitness under stress...