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:

• Complex trait dissection in conifers.
• Efficient detection of variants of polygenic adaptation in Drosophila experimental evolution.
• Evolution of gene expression.
• Functional characterization of beneficial alleles in Drosophila.
• Genomic architecture of reverse selection.
• Incipient speciation during adaptation to a new environment.
• Inference of selection parameters using whole genome data.
• Long-term dynamics of adaptive alleles.
• Microbiome evolution in Drosophila.
• Multi-measurement experimental evolution: How to combine evidence from different sources?
• Polygenic adaptation: The roles of pleiotropy and epistasis.
• Population genomic footprints and drivers of repeated trait shifts during adaptive radiation.
• The genetics of local adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana.
• The role of a nascent sex chromosome on interspecific patterns of allele sharing.
• Transposon polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana.
• Within-species consequences of genomic interactions in ecologically important species.