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 love for evolutionary research and a background in one of the following disciplines: evolutionary genetics, functional genetics, theoretical or experimental population genetics, bioinformatics, mathematics, statistics.

Topics include:
• Evolution from de novo mutations – influence of elevated mutation rates.
• Evolution of sex-specific neuronal signaling.
• Genome evolution in columbines.
• Inference of selection signatures from time-series data.
• Long-term dynamics of local Drosophila populations.
• Molecular evolution of coding sequences.
• Molecular genetics of epigenetics.
• Seed ecology.
• Structural variation and genome evolution.
• Temperature adaptation in Drosophila: phenotypic adaptation.
• The sources of diversity shaping adaptive radiation.
• Understanding polygenic adaptation.