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from the Zoological Institute, University of Zurich dept. A 3-year funded PhD student position is available in the Animal Behaviour group of the Zoological Institute of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. In house mice, females rear their litters cooperatively, sharing all maternal care of the pups, or alone. The project aims to measure selection on cooperative maternal care, identify environmental influences on trait expression, and unravel the genetic architecture underlying this trait.We combine laboratory experiments with field work on a free-living population of wild house mice outside of Zurich. We are developing an excellent dataset on social affiliations and lifetime reproduction of individual mice. Currently, we are building a genetic pedigree of the population for use in animal modelling by the PhD student. The research team includes Dr. Anna Lindholm and Prof. Barbara Koenig at the University of Zurich, and Dr. Luc Janss of the Bioinformatics and Statistical Genetics Group, Aarhus University, Denmark. The University of Zurich offers excellent research facilities and a rich academic community, see http://www.lifesciencezurich.ch.We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated student who is interested in social behaviour and quantitative genetics. Experience in handling animals is an asset. A high quality honours or Masters degree or similar in Natural Sciences, with a good background in statistics, is required, as is a driver’s license. Yearly salary is 38000 – 44000 SFr. The working language is English.Applicants should submit a letter summarising motivation, research interests and relevant experience, a short CV (max 2 pages), undergraduate and masters/diploma transcripts, a list of publications (if any), and the names and contact information including e-mail addresses of 2 researchers willing to write a letter of reference, all as one pdf file, to anna.lindholm@zool.uzh.ch. Please write “PhD position” on the subject line.Review of applications will start on April 15 and will continue until the position has been filled. Ideally, the successful applicant will start in May.Dr Anna Lindholm Animal Behaviour / Verhaltensbiologie University of Zürich Tel: +41 (0)44 6355276Institute of Zoology Fax: +41 (0)44 6355490Winterthurerstrasse 190 CH-8057 ZürichSwitzerlandEmail: anna.lindholm@zool.uzh.ch < EEEF 2008 Conference includes George Barlow Commemorative Symposium | TROPICAL BIRD NESTING BEHAVIOR >
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PhD research - social behaviour in house mice
