For enquiries about the following project, please contact Dr Kevin Dawson.
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Applications are invited for the following Ph.D studentship.
Project title: Development of new computational strategies for
identifying genomic regions which have undergone adaptive divergence
between populations.
As partially isolated populations each adapt, under natural selection,
to their local environmental conditions, so the genotype composition of
these populations will diverge at regions of the genome which contribute
to these local adaptations. Thus the process of adaptive divergence
leaves a genetic signature which it is sometimes possible to detect (in
outcrossing species at least) against the noisy background of divergence
generated by mutation and random drift. There is a need for improved
Bayesian methods to make the best use of the information provided by
genotype data from multiple populations in order to identify these
genomic regions.
This is a BBSRC CASE Studentship, which attracts a minimum annual
stipend of 14,800.
The student will be based at Rothamsted Research. For further
information, visit http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk (click on
Careers/PhD Studentships)
BBSRC studentships are only available to UK nationals. For full details
of BBSRC eligibility criteria please visit the above link.
Closing date for the receipt of applications is Friday 10 February 2006.
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