Postdoc opportunity at Purdue University

A postdoc position in evolutionary genetics is available at Purdue University. Strong molecular and/or bioinformatic skills are essential, as this salamander project will likely involve empirical assays of alternative mRNA splicing and/or transcriptome analyses via Roche 454 sequencing. For more information, contact Andrew DeWoody at Purdue University or see
http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/fnr/html/faculty/DeWoody/index.html.
The cost of living in West Lafayette is low, and we are only an hour from Indianapolis and two hours from Chicago. Motivated applicants should submit (as PDFs) a short letter of interest, a curriculum vitae,
relevant reprints, and contact information for three references.

For more about our research on salamander parentage and MHC biology, see:

Bos D.H. & DeWoody J.A. (2005) Molecular characterization of major histocompatibility complex class II alleles in wild tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum). Immunogenetics 57, 775-781.

Gopurenko D., Williams R.N., McCormick C. & DeWoody J.A. (2006) Insights into the aggregate breeding biology of the tiger salamander (Ambystoma t. tigrinum) as revealed by genetic parentage analyses. Molecular Ecology 15:1917-1928.

Gopurenko D., Williams R.N. & DeWoody J.A. (2007) Reproductive and mating success in the small-mouthed salamander (Ambystoma texanum) estimated via microsatellite parentage analysis. Evolutionary Biology 34:130-139.

Bos D.H., Turner S.M. & DeWoody J.A. (2007) Haplotype inference from diploid sequence data: evaluating the performance of Bayesian methods using non-neutral MHC sequences. Hereditas 144:228-234.

Bos D.H., Gopurenko D., Williams R.N. & DeWoody J.A. (2008) Inferring population history and demography using microsatellites, mitochondrial DNA, and major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes. Evolution 62:1458-1468.

Bulut, Z., McCormick C.R., Bos D.H. & DeWoody J.A. (2008) Polymorphism for alternative splicing of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) transcripts in wild tiger salamanders. Journal of Molecular Evolution (in press) DOI 10.1007/s00239-008-9125-1.

Williams R.N., Bos D.H., Gopurenko D. & DeWoody J.A. (2008) Inbreeding and amphibian malformations. Biology Letters (in press) DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0233.