Closing Date
Friday 11 April 2025
Reference
MEDLS1295
Position Overview
An exciting opportunity for a Research Associate in Behaviour and Evolution is available to work with Professor Andrew MacColl at the University of Nottingham on a Leverhulme Trust funded project: "Don't put your eggs in one basket: evolution of emancipation from parental care". The primary aim of the project is to quantify the ecological causes and genomic basis of loss of parental care in three-spined stickleback fish, using a mixture of field work, field and behavioural experiments, classical genetics and bioinformatics.
Key Responsibilities
1. Investigate the loss of male parental care in sympatric ecotypes of three-spined stickleback on the Scottish island of North Uist.
2. Conduct substantial fieldwork on North Uist, including aquatic habitat surveys and large experiments to quantify behaviour.
3. Perform field experiments and genomic analyses of QTL experiments and tissue-specific expression data.
4. Lead on publishing the results of this work.
Essential Skills and Experience
Essential or desirable skills and experience include:
1. Ecological fieldwork (especially in aquatic systems/with fish).
2. Behavioural experimentation and analysis.
3. Statistical data analysis (e.g. in R).
4. Molecular biology lab skills.
5. Familiarity with relevant scientific literature.
Qualifications
Applicants must have, or be very near to completing, a PhD in a relevant subject (e.g. behaviour, evolutionary biology, genetics, ecology) and a track record of publishing their research in relevant journals, appropriate to career stage.
Working Environment
The position will be based in the School of Life Sciences, a large, diverse and supportive unit at the University of Nottingham, with diverse opportunities to interact with a wider group of evolutionary biologists and ecologists locally, in the UK, and with European research labs. You will work closely with other postdoctoral research associates studying ecological and genomic divergence between the ecotypes.
Contact Information
Potential applicants are encouraged to contact Andrew MacColl (andrew.maccoll@nottingham.ac.uk) with informal questions, in advance of applying.
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