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2008 PhD Student Scholarship at Queen Mary University of London
December 3, 2007
Dissecting the causes of rate variation in the molecular clock
PhD Student Scholarship at Queen Mary University of London (Sept 2008
for 4 years)
This position is open to students from all countries.
The Scholarship covers fees and living expenses, but it will require
you to do limited lab teaching (demonstrating).
The molecular clock hypothesis proposes that evolution at the sequence
level occurs at a more-or-less constant rate. This hypothesis is
demonstrably false: for example, the rate of substitution in coral
mitochondrial DNA is a hundred-fold slower than other animals. Yet
such glaring counter-examples are swept aside with disturbing alacrity
when the clock is used to draw inferences about the action of
selection, or evolutionary history.
The genomic data that have recently accumulated provide an exciting
and unexploited opportunity to investigate the fundamental
evolutionary processes affecting such variation, because sequences
from multiple loci can now be obtained from many species. The student
will be equipped with computational skills and the theoretical
understanding to contribute to this essential field of post-genomic
science.
It will suit a student interested in evolutionary biology, and, while
programming skills are not a prerequisite, a reasonably sophisticated
familiarity with computers and a willingness to learn basic
programming skills are essential. The results of this project will
overcome fundamental obstacles to the use of molecular clock
techniques in studies ranging from gene function to biogeography. More
importantly the project will generate novel insights into the
fundamental processes of molecular evolution.
Applications are invited from candidates with, or expecting to obtain,
at least an upper-second class honours degree in an area relevant to
the project. Applicants should send a CV and the names and contact
details of two academic referees to James Cotton
(j.a.cotton@qmul.ac.uk) by 1st of February 2008
Further details at http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/jacotton/studentship.html
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