Postdoctoral Position in Evolutionary Ecology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science...

Updated: about 2 years ago
Job Type: FullTime
Deadline: 06 Feb 2022

Workplace: Parasitology Research Group, Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Type of Contract: temporary position with 3-year contract, non-academic

Working Hours: 1,0 FTE (full-time employment of 40 hours per week)

Expected Start Date: 2022 (preferably March, if necessary starting date can be negotiated)

Number of Open Positions: 1

Pay: CZK 40.000 per month /negotiable

EU Researcher Profile : R2

Application Deadline: 6 February 2022

About the Workplace

Masaryk University is the second-largest university in the Czech Republic with ten faculties, more than 5000 staff, and more than 30 000 students.

Faculty of Science MU, a proud holder of the HR Excellence in Research Award by the European Commission, is a research-oriented faculty, offering university education (Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degree programs) closely linked to both primary and applied research and high school teaching of the following sciences: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Earth sciences. We are the most productive scientific unit of the Masaryk University generating around 40 % of MU research results.

Department of Botany and Zoology is a modern centre of research and teaching in the fields of evolutionary biology, biosystematics and ecology. Its individual research groups study phylogenetic relationships and the classification of organisms, their diversity from the local to the continental level, and the ecological relationships of individual species, populations and communities in relation to both natural and human-induced changes in entire ecosystems.

Job Description

Key Duties:

Postdoctoral position is open within grant project of prof. Andrea Vetešníková Šimková, project title: Evolutionary and ecological mechanisms of the coexistence of asexual and sexual reproduction in fish.

The aim of the project is to study the mechanisms facilitating the coexistence of asexuals (triploids) and sexuals (diploids) of gibel carp (Carassius gibelio), unique cyprinid fish exhibiting dual mode of reproduction. More specifically, the project will investigate 1) the contribution of abiotic, demographical and behavioral factors, and parasite load on coexistence of sexual and asexual forms, 2) and the differential expression of immune genes and genes associated with reproduction of sexuals and asexuals.

The selected candidate for postdoctoral position will be responsible mainly for molecular parts of projects (experiment design in collaboration with mentor, optimization and realization of molecular analyses, guiding molecular analyses of students involved in project, biological interpretation of bioinformatics analyses realized in collaboration with CEITEC MUNI, coordination of molecular part of the project, results interpretation, presentations at international conferences, publications of project outputs in international journals).

Holder of this PostDoc position is expected to perform his/her work fully in presence at the Department of Botany and Zoology of the Faculty of Science MU in Brno, except for business trips (conferences, workshops or fieldwork).



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