Prof. Marc Johnson’s EvoEco Lab (www.evoeco.org) is seeking applications for a Post-Doctoral Researcher to study Plant Evolutionary Genomics and Evolutionary Ecology in the Department of Biology at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). The successful candidate will have the ability to work on one of two projects. Project 1 builds on the Global Urban Evolution project (GLUE, see www.globalurbanevolution.com) to examine how urbanization influences evolutionary processes (gene flow, genetic drift and adaptation) using a large dataset of whole genome sequences of ca. 1000 Trifolium repens plants, sequenced from 100s of populations in 50 cities worldwide. Project 2 examines how hybridization and a loss of sex contribute to rapid phenotypic and species diversification in the plant genus Oenothera in South America. Project 2 may also involve field work in South America and lab work. Both projects require expertise in bioinformatics (PERL, Python or equivalent programming languages) and statistical methods (in R and comparable programmes) related to whole genome sequence data, including analyses of population structure, demographic modeling and gene flow. The successful candidate will have substantial intellectual freedom to tailor research questions to their own interests. Previous work on plants or urban systems is not required.
Full posting: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zY03stbH6gOkMheHZtifgXe5_7RgNfB6/view?usp=sharing.
