Post-Doc Research Associate; Schrider

Position Summary

The Schrider Lab at UNC Chapel Hill is hiring a postdoc in population genetics and/or phylogenetics. The successful candidate will help design and carry out projects related to one or more of the following:

• Development and application of computational methods to interrogate the impacts of (and interplay between) adaptation, recombination, introgression, and demographic changes on genetic diversity within and between species;
• Elucidating the phylogenetic relationships among species and/or the genealogical relationships of individuals of the same species;
• Study of these or other evolutionary questions in mosquito genomes;
• Examining the dynamics of evolutionary models (e.g. evolution of therapeutic resistance in cancer) via simulation and/or analytical theory.

PhD in Evolution, Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, or related fields.

The successful candidate will have a strong research background in evolutionary genetics and/or computational genomics.

The ideal candidate is highly motivated by team science.

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