PhD: IMPRINTING AND PLOIDY IN BUMBLEBEES, LEICESTERDeadline for applications: 7 January 2022Project highlights– Building on NERC funded and CENTA PhD work on bumblebees, an important pollinator.– How are imprinted diploid genes used in a haploid sex?– Are different genes imprinted at different stages?OverviewThis project asks how can imprinted genes exist in a haplodiploid organism. Genomic […]
Application Review started 1 November 2021 but position will remain open until filledThe Hines Lab at The Pennsylvania State University (Biology Department, University Park, PA, USA; hineslab.org) is hiring a Postdoctoral Scholar to perform research on an NSF-funded project examining the genetic basis of mimetic color diversity in bees. The postdoc will lead a project […]
Deadline: 7th January 2022Application: https://www.iapetus2.ac.uk/how-to-applyBackground:Bumblebees are agriculturally important pollinators, but are currently declining in abundance in the UK and around the world, in part due to climate change (Soroye et al. 2020). Understanding these declines requires research on the biology and ecology of these species. Bumblebees are thought to be generalists, pollinating a variety of […]
Application deadline: 1 December 2021 1) The first project is on the « Importance and sustainability of endangered communities of bee pollinators in the machair, a changing coastal ecosystem ». This is a 3.5 years CASE project, part of a competition funded by QUADRAT NERC DTP and the Bumblebee Conservation Trust (https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org) and in collaboration with Dr […]
Registration is now open for the winter meeting of the IUSSI with a deadline of the 15th of November for abstract submission. The conference will take place over Zoom on 3 afternoons from the 16th to the 18th of December with keynote talks from: Lotta Sundström (University of Helsinki, Finland) Yusuf Abdullahi Ahmed (University of […]
Deadline: 6 January 2020 PhD: Studying bumblebee population dynamics and adaptations to understand plant-pollinator evolution under climate change Supervisors: Richard Gill, Jacob Johansson & Keith Larson To date our understanding of how insect pollinator declines are influenced by climate change remains limited. For instance, why have some species shown evidence of latitudinal range shifts in […]
PhD: AGEING IN SOCIAL ANIMALS, UEA PHD STUDENTSHIP OPPORTUNITY: The ageing bee: how does sociality affect ageing in social animals? PhD to study sociality and ageing in bumble bees at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Supervisors: Andrew Bourke (a.bourke@uea.ac.uk), Alex Maklakov, Tracey Chapman (all UEA) Closing date for applications: TUESDAY 7 […]
PhD positions to study the ‘omics cascade of bumble bee cold tolerance Funding for PhD students is available at The University of Alabama as part of a recently awarded NSF Rules of Life project: “Bumble bee cold tolerance across elevations – From epigenotype to phenotype across space, time, and levels of biological organization”. PhD […]
PhD POSITIONS: EPIGENOME-TO-PHENOME OF BUMBLE BEE THERMAL TOLERANCE, ALABAMA Multiple PhD positions are available in the laboratories of Jeff Lozier and Janna Fierst at The University of Alabama as part of a recently awarded NSF Rules of Life project: « Bumble bee cold tolerance across elevations – From epigenotype to phenotype across space, time, and levels […]
PhD Positions to Study Epigenome-to-Phenome of Bumble Bee Thermal Tolerance: Multiple PhD positions are available in the laboratories of Jeff Lozier and Janna Fierst at The University of Alabama as part of a recently awarded NSF Rules of Life project: “Bumble bee cold tolerance across elevations – From epigenotype to phenotype across space, time, and […]
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POSTDOC: JERUSALEM Diversity in body size underlies two of the organization principles of bumblebee societies: worker division of labor and caste determination, but little is known on the proximate mechanisms regulating body size and how they are socially regulated. This project explores how social cues such as pheromones, behavior, and queen regurgitates, interact with endocrine […]
POSTDOC: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE The Woodard and Yamanaka Labs in the Department of Entomology at the University of California, Riverside are seeking to recruit a postdoctoral researcher to study bumble bee larval development. The postdoc will use a variety of molecular methods (including but not limited to RNAseq and RNAi) to explore the proximate […]
Contrôle d’altitude chez le bourdon : les invariants optiques Naviguer dans un environnement inconnu est une tâche aujourd’hui impossible à réaliser par un micro aéronef de quelques grammes, mais qui est réalisée tous les jours avec aisance par les insectes volants. Il existe donc des principes performants, basés en particulier sur des traitements adéquats de l’information […]
Naviguer dans un environnement inconnu est une tâche aujourd’hui impossible à réaliser par un micro aéronef de quelques grammes, mais qui est réalisée tous les jours avec aisance par les insectes volants. Il existe donc des principes performants, basés en particulier sur des traitements adéquats de l’information visuelle, qui permettent aux insectes volants de réaliser […]
Fully funded PhD opportunity in pollinator ecology at the University of Oxford, UK – UK or EU nationals only Global declines of both wild and managed insect pollinators threaten ecosystem function and human food security. Pollinator declines have been specifically linked to declines in the abundance and diversity of floral resources, the use of agrochemicals, […]
Early discount registration and abstract submission for the XI European Congress of Entomology will close on 28 February 2018. The congress will have a session specifically dedicated to social insects named « SOCIAL INSECTS AND APIDOLOGY », which will have three themes: Social immunity – Keynote: Line Vej Ugelvig Bees: management, ecosystem services, and products: Keynote: Christina […]
GRADUATE STUDENT POSITIONS: The Lozier Lab (lozierlab.ua.edu) at The University of Alabama, Dept. of Biological Sciences, is recruiting a highly motivated graduate students to start in the Fall 2018 semester. Students would work on projects related to ongoing NSF-funded studies of bumble bee population genomics to uncover signatures of adaptative and demographic processes within and […]
PhD STUDENTSHIP: DOMINANCE AND POLICING IN BUMBLE BEES, UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA A fully-funded PhD studentship to start in October 2018 in Andrew Bourke’s group in the School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, is now open for applications. The project is entitled ‘Dominance and policing in bumble bees’ and will use […]
A NERC-funded PDRA position is available for 34 months working at the Natural History Museum, London, with Professor Ian Barnes and Dr Selina Brace, on the recovery and analysis of DNA from bumblebee museum specimens. This work is part of a larger project investigating insect pollinator responses over a century of UK land-use change. The […]
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS OF DISEASE AND PESTICIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY IN BUMBLE BEES POSTDOCTORAL POSITION SALARY $43,000-$47,500 per yr. Applications are invited to join the Cameron Lab in the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois. Research will focus on experimental studies of the functional genomics and ecological effects of […]