Computational Molecular Evolution, Cambridge

Computational Molecular Evolution

10-21 April 2011

Wellcome Trust Genome Campus,

Hinxton, Cambridge, UK

Deadline for applications 26 November 2010

Course summary

This joint Wellcome Trust-EMBL-EBI advanced course aims to provide researchers with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to carry out molecular evolutionary analysis on their own data, as well as on data drawn from sequence databases. The course will combine basic assumptions and ideas fundamental to the field with discussion of cutting-edge methodologies, and is therefore relevant to researchers with a range of different experience levels.

Topics

• interpretation of molecular phylogenetic trees and sequence alignments
• genomics resources, sequence searching and sequence alignments
• phylogeny reconstruction and models
• hypothesis testing in phylogenetics
• coalescent model and inference from population data.

Course organisers

• Nick Goldman (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK)
• Ziheng Yang (University College London, UK)
• Aidan Budd (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany)
• Alexandros Stamatakis (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies)

One-semester fellowships for graduate students at NESCent

NESCent

National Evolutionary Synthesis Center

Graduate Fellowships

The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center is now seeking to include graduate traineeship to our portfolio in facilitating broadly synthetic research to address fundamental questions in evolutionary science. We are offering one-semester fellowships for graduate students to pursue research either with a NESCent sabbatical scholar, working group, or postdoctoral fellow. The research should be in line with the goals of the sabbatical scholar and/or working group and may include integrating datasets, developing databases, performing analyses, programming and software development, etc. Support will not be provided to collect or generate new data. When relevant, graduate students are expected to be full members of working group. Ultimately we expect the graduate student to lead and author aspects of the research.

Read more >>> http://www.nescent.org/science/GraduateFellowships.php

Oportunidad de beca para estudiante de entomologia

Teaching/research assistantship for a M.S. or Ph.D. student at the University of Memphis

A teaching/research assistantship is available for a M.S. or Ph.D. student in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Memphis under the supervision of Dr. Duane McKenna, beginning August 2011. Students interested in insect (especially beetle) genomics, molecular phylogenetics, and/or the evolutionary ecology of insect-plant interactions are encouraged to apply. Prior laboratory and field experience preferred.

Interested students may inquire by contacting dmckenna [at] memphis [.] edu. Further information about the Department of Biological Sciences and the Graduate Program can be found at http://www.memphis.edu/biology/graduate.htm