<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>For a PhD and postdoc on Drosophila population genetics, please read below.</div><div><br></div><div>Robert</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FLATT Thomas <thomas.flatt@unifr.ch><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Postdoc & PhD positions to work on balancing selection & adaptive polymorphisms</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6 October 2023 at 13:32:55 CEST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FLATT Thomas <thomas.flatt@unifr.ch><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FLATT Thomas <thomas.flatt@unifr.ch><br></span></div><br><div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Dear Colleagues and Friends,</span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm; font-size:medium; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
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<span lang="EN-US">(<i>apologies in case of multiple posting</i>)</span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm; font-size:medium; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
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<span lang="EN-US">I would be very grateful if you could please pass this on to potentially interested students and people in your institution / network. </span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm; font-size:medium; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
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<span lang="EN-US">My lab has openings for a<b> Postdoc</b> and a <b>PhD position</b> to study fundamental questions about how different types of
<b>balancing selection</b> maintain adaptive polymorphisms in natural populations. </span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm; font-size:medium; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
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<span lang="EN-US">The project will focus on studying<b> polymorphic chromosomal inversions</b> in the ancestral range of
<i><b>Drosophila melanogaster</b></i></span><b> a</b>nd how they are maintained by balancing selection; it will combine population genomic analyses, transcriptomics, phenotypic assays, population cage experiments, as well as field work. The Postdoc and PhD
student will be embedded in a larger project team, involving a senior postdoc, a technician and several undergraduate students, as well as in close collaboration with our
<b>international project partners</b> Rashidatu Abdulazeez (Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria), Martin Kapun (Natural History Museum Vienna), Miyanda Moonga (University of Zambia), Paul Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania), John Pool (University of Wisconsin),
and others.</div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm; font-size:medium; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
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<span lang="EN-US">The postdoc and PhD candidates should have a strong background in evolutionary biology and population genetics; ideally, they have prior experience with population genomic analyses and/or
<i>Drosophila </i>evolutionary genetics. </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
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<span lang="EN-US">The starting date is flexible; both positions are funded for <b>
up to 4 years</b>; salary information upon request.</span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm; font-size:medium; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
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<span lang="EN-US">I would be happy to chat informally about details with interested candidates;
<b>informal inquiries</b> should please be sent to: <a href="mailto:thomas.flatt@unifr.ch" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">thomas.flatt@unifr.ch</a>. </span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm; font-size:medium; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
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<span lang="EN-US">A pdf flyer of the job ad with further info is attached to this message.</span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm; font-size:medium; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
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<span lang="EN-US">Thank you very much for your help, I appreciate it.<span class="x_MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline"></span></span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm; font-size:medium; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
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<span lang="EN-US">Best wishes,</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span lang="EN-US">Thomas</span></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm; font-size:medium; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
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Prof. Thomas Flatt<br>
Department of Biology<br>
University of Fribourg<br>
Chemin du Musée 10<br>
CH-1700 Fribourg <br>
Switzerland<br>
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e-mail: thomas.flatt@unifr.ch<br>
phone: +41 26 300 8833<br>
phone: +41 26 300 8850 (secretary)<br>
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https://www3.unifr.ch/bio/en/groups/flatt/<br>
European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium: <a href="http://droseu.net/">
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