An exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship is available in the lab of Dr.
Charlotte Lindqvist in the
Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo. We are seeking a
Postdoctoral Associate in Paleogenomics as part of a highly interdisciplinary and collaborative project funded by a new 4-year National Science Foundation Understanding the Rules of Life - Emergent Networks award. The project will study Late Pleistocene-Holocene climate change and ecological change during rapid warming events in Southeast Alaska, and the project team comprises biologists and geologists at the University at Buffalo with cross-disciplinary expertise in evolutionary biology, paleogenomics, ecology, geology, and paleoclimatology. The abstract of the award ("URoL:EN: Integrating paleogenomics, ecology, and geology to predict organism-environment coupled evolution during rapid warming and ice sheet retreat") can be found
here.
Duties include, but are not limited to:
- Fieldwork and processing of lake core sediment samples (sedimentary ancient DNA) collected from Southeast Alaska
- Ancient DNA data generation and analyses from sediments and subfossils
- Involvement with age-depth modeling of lake sediment cores and pollen analysis
- Mentoring of students and course planning
- Project coordination and outreach
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