PhD positions in Population Genetics

Over the past years, Vienna has developed into one of the leading centres of population genetics. The Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics has been founded to provide a training opportunity for PhD students to build on this excellent on site expertise.

We invite applications from highly motivated and outstanding students with a background in one of the following disciplines: bioinformatics, statistics, evolutionary genetics, functional genetics, theoretical and experimental population genetics. Students from related disciplines, such as physics or mathematics are also welcome to apply.

Topics include:
• Convergent and adaptive evolution during ecotype formation
• Wolbachia infection dynamics in evolving Drosophila populations
• Optimizing novel, Next Generation Sequencing based, approaches for dissecting the genetic basis of complex traits
• Evolution of the transposable element landscape in Drosophila
• Selfish mutations
• Statistical inference for experimental evolution using pooled NGS data
• Evolution of gene expression in Drosophila
• Inferring evolutionary trajectories from time series data
• Functional characterization of beneficial alleles in Drosophila
• Modified evolve and re-sequence design