The Baldan lab at the University of Nevada, Reno is looking to recruit a PhD graduate student to join our lab in fall 2024 !!
Students interested in evolutionary biology/behavioral ecology, parental care and sexual conflict are strongly encouraged to apply.
The PhD candidate can join the highly interdisciplinary EECB graduate program, which bring together faculty and students from a range of departments. The candidate has the opportunity to customize his/her education according to scientific interests, i.e., we offer possibilities to work on nest box populations of songbirds in Spain and Italy in collaboration with the University of Madrid, Spain and University of Padova, Italy.
Proposed research topics in this call include:
1 – How do parents respond to each other? The candidate can plan and execute behavioral field experiments to elucidate the behavioral rules that parents adopt when negotiating care for their offspring.
2 – Neuroendocrine mechanisms mediating pair bonding and parental care. The candidate can make use of a neuroendocrine lab at UNR to study the hormonal and physiological regulation of mating and parental strategies.
3 – Effect of climate change on mating and reproductive strategies. The candidate can use long-term breeding datasets and monitor active songbird populations to investigate the effect of climate warming on reproduction of alpine birds.
The University of Nevada, Reno is a R1 institution offering a highly productive research environment. Reno is also a fun place to live. Located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Lake Tahoe, Reno has been recently rated as one of the best small cities in the US for outdoor recreation and overall quality of life.
Interested candidates should send an email to dbaldan@unr.edu with a CV and a cover letter. Application deadline: September 30th, 2023.
Students interested in evolutionary biology/behavioral ecology, parental care and sexual conflict are strongly encouraged to apply.
The PhD candidate can join the highly interdisciplinary EECB graduate program, which bring together faculty and students from a range of departments. The candidate has the opportunity to customize his/her education according to scientific interests, i.e., we offer possibilities to work on nest box populations of songbirds in Spain and Italy in collaboration with the University of Madrid, Spain and University of Padova, Italy.
Proposed research topics in this call include:
1 – How do parents respond to each other? The candidate can plan and execute behavioral field experiments to elucidate the behavioral rules that parents adopt when negotiating care for their offspring.
2 – Neuroendocrine mechanisms mediating pair bonding and parental care. The candidate can make use of a neuroendocrine lab at UNR to study the hormonal and physiological regulation of mating and parental strategies.
3 – Effect of climate change on mating and reproductive strategies. The candidate can use long-term breeding datasets and monitor active songbird populations to investigate the effect of climate warming on reproduction of alpine birds.
The University of Nevada, Reno is a R1 institution offering a highly productive research environment. Reno is also a fun place to live. Located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Lake Tahoe, Reno has been recently rated as one of the best small cities in the US for outdoor recreation and overall quality of life.
Interested candidates should send an email to dbaldan@unr.edu with a CV and a cover letter. Application deadline: September 30th, 2023.