Vacancy ID: PDS004866

Position Summary/Description:
The Schrider Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hiring a postdoc in population genetics and/or phylogenetics. The successful candidate will help design and carry out projects related to one or more of the following:

1) the development and application of computational methods to interrogate the impacts of (and interplay between) adaptation, recombination, introgression, and demographic changes on genetic diversity within and between species;

2) elucidating the phylogenetic relationships among species and/or the genealogical relationships of individuals of the same species;

3) the study of these or other evolutionary questions in mosquito genomes;

4) examining the dynamics of evolutionary models (e.g. the evolution of therapeutic resistance in cancer) via simulation and/or analytical theory.

Education and Experience:
The ideal candidate will be an indiv...