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E v o l D i r April 1, 2012 Month in Review Foreword This listing is intended to aid researchers in population genetics and evolution. To add your name to the directory listing, to change anything regarding this listing or to complain please send me mail at [email protected]. Listing in this directory is neither limited nor censored and is solely to help scientists reach other members in the same field and to serve as a means of communication. Please do not add to the junk e-mail unless necessary. The nature of the messages should be “bulletin board” in nature, if there is a “discussion” style topic that you would like to post please send it to the USENET discussion groups. Instructions for the EvolDir are listed at the end of this message. / Foreword ................................................................................................... 1 Conferences .................................................................................................2 GradStudentPositions . .22 Jobs ....................................................................................................... 52 Other ......................................................................................................76 PostDocs .................................................................................................. 88 WorkshopsCourses . .122 Instructions .............................................................................................. 134 Afterword ................................................................................................ 135 2 EvolDir April 1, 2012 Conferences AMNH NewYork StudentConservation Oct10-12 MNHN Paris EvolutionConstraints Jun20-22 . 12 CallAbstracts . 2 Montpellier EvolutionCancer Apr11 . 12 Ankara IntlStdCongressEvol Sep29-Oct1 . .3 Novosibirsk GenomeBioinformatics Jun25-29 . 13 Berlin SEAsianGatewayEvol Mar11-15 . 3 Ottawa Evol2012 MSI Faculty . .14 Chicago GalaxyCommunity Jul25-27 Registration . 4 Ottawa Evolution2012 Jul6-10 . .14 Columbia Metagenomics May7-8 . 4 Ottawa iEvoBio Informatics Jul10-11 . .15 Edinburgh EvolutionMaternalEffects May9 reminder 5 Ottawa iEvoBio Informatics Jul10-11 CallForTalks 16 FieldMuseum Chicago PlantEvolution Apr20 . 5 Ottawa iEvoBio Informatics Jul10-11 ChallengeCall 17 Fribourg Switzerland RapidEvolution Sep6-7 . 6 Ottawa iEvoBio Informatics Jul10-11 TravelAwards 18 Galveston QuantitativeGeneticsGenomics Feb16-17 . 6 Ottawa RoadmapMolecularEcology Jul6 . .18 IowaStateU StatMethods NGS May11 . 6 Paris FrenchSocietySystematics Oct8-10 . 18 IST Austria HumanEvolution May7 Registration . 7 Perth EvolPlantSignalling Sep16-21 Abst Mar20 . .19 KansasCity ArthropodGenomics May30-Jun2 LastCall Prague PolyploidyBiodiversity May7-10 program . 19 7 Tokyo ClimatePlantEvolution Aug23-30 . 19 Lund EvolutionaryConstraint Aug18 . 8 UCalifornia LosAngeles FishFossilPhylogenetics . 20 LundU BehaviourEvolution Aug12-17 Registr 2 . .9 UHawaii Hilo TropicalConservation . .20 LundU NonAdaptiveSpeciation Aug18 . .9 UMichigan BiodiversityInformatics Mar25 . 21 Mainz BiodivEvolBiol Sep16-19 . 10 Virrat Finland PhDStudentsEvolBiol Sep25-30 Regst Manchester GenomeEvolution May11 . .11 21 Marseilles EvolutionaryBiol Sep18-21 . 11 lawXif it has a relevance for conservation, we want to hear your perspective! Join fellow conservation stu- dents and conservation professionals from around the AMNH NewYork world to network, exchange ideas, and receive feedback StudentConservation Oct10-12 from leaders in science, policy, academia, and manage- CallAbstracts ment at one of the worlds preeminent scientific and cul- tural institutions. Application Deadline for Talks, Speed Talks, and Abstracts Wanted! Conservation Science Conference at Posters: Monday, April 2. Non-presenting attendees AMNH! may register until September. STUDENT CONFERENCE ON CONSERVATION The Student Conference on Conservation Science was SCIENCE-NEW YORK (SCCS-NY) American Mu- created in 2000 by the University of Cambridge, and is seum of Natural History New York City October 10-12, currently held annually in Cambridge, New York, and 2012 $100 USD cbc.amnh.org Bangalore, India. The 2012 SCCS-NY is hosted by the The conference is designed for graduate students, post- Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the Ameri- doctoral fellows, and early-career professionals pursuing can Museum of Natural History. Collaborating institu- or considering the field of conservation science. (Under- tions include Cambridge University, Columbia Univer- graduate students conducting thesis-level research may sity Earth Institute,Yale School of Forestry and Envi- also apply.) ronmental Studies, and Princeton University. All Disciplines are Welcome! Whatever your focusXbi- To learn more, visit the SCCS-NY site or follow us on ology, sociology, medicine, economics, architecture, the Facebook. April 1, 2012 EvolDir 3 Fiona Brady <[email protected]> Berlin SEAsianGatewayEvol Ankara IntlStdCongressEvol Mar11-15 Sep29-Oct1 Dear Sir/Madam We are the members of Biology and Genetic Student Club in Middle East Technical University (METU) at Ankara/Turkey. 2nd Southeast Asian Gateway Evolution Meeting We will organize 1st International Student Congress March 11-15, 2013, Berlin, Germany of Evolutionary Biology. We decided to organize this congress because of lack of an Evolutionary Biology The Museum f¨ur Naturkunde Berlin and the Humboldt Congress for students and also increasing attacks of University will host the second International conference fundamentalist and ignored opponents of the evolution. on Southeast Asian Gateway Evolution (SAGE 2013). We want to sharing of information about Evolutionary This meeting focuses on the origin, diversification, and Biology between the students comes from all over the conservation of Southeast Asia’s megadiverse fauna and world. Also want to show, young people adopt the The- flora against the background of the region’s complex ory of Evolution. geology and climate history. We aim to attract clima- Congress will be held on 29-30 September, 1 October tologists, biogeographers, palaeontologists & geologists 2012 at METU. It will include 6 sessions. One of them to this multidisciplinary meeting and look forward to consist presentations of academicians on “View of the welcoming you in Berlin in March 2013. Theory of Evolution in Turkey and World”. Other 5 Time schedule and deadlines session include BSs, MSc and PhD students’ presen- tations and academicians moderate the sessions (total 30 June 2012 Call for workshops & symposia closes 20 oral presentations also poster presentations). Also 1 August 2012 Abstract submission and online registra- 2 plenary talks will take place in congress. Prof. Eva tion opens Jablonka from Tel Aviv University accepts to give a 30 November 2012 Deadline for submission of abstracts plenary talk. For other talk, we contact to Prof. John and early registration Endler. Please visit the conference website for more information Then, we apply for help to you. Even without financial and updates: www.sage2013.org. A pdf of the first cir- aid, we ask you to other assistance, such as announce- cular can be downloaded from the website. ment of the congress. Also, recognition of the Congress and take place under the umbrella of SSE, will be great Dr. Thomas von Rintelen honor for us. Coordinator of DNA Laboratory & Curator of DNA If you would like to review, I can send the promoting collection file of Congress. Museum f¨ur Naturkunde Leibniz-Institut f¨ur Sincerely yours... Evolutions- und Biodiversit¨atsforschung an der Humboldt-Universit¨at zu Berlin Invalidenstraße 43 Bab¨ur ERDEM 10115 Berlin Germany Middle East Technical University Biology Department Tel.: +49-(0)30-2093 8428 Fax: +49-(0)30-2093 8565 06800 ankaya Ankara/TURKEY E-mail: [email protected] Homepage: http://metu.edu.tr/ ˜ e165381/ GSM: Internet: http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de +905062299206 “Rintelen, Thomas von” <Thomas.Rintelen@mfn- Bab¨ur ERDEM <[email protected]> berlin.de> 4 EvolDir April 1, 2012 http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/- http://usegalaxy.org/ http://galaxyproject.org/wiki/ Dave Clements <[email protected]> Chicago GalaxyCommunity Jul25-27 Registration Columbia Metagenomics May7-8 We are pleased to announce that early registration is now open for the 2012 Galaxy Community Confer- ence (GCC2012, http://galaxyproject.org/GCC2012). GCC2012 will be held July 25-27, at the UIC Forum, in Chicago, Illinois. The conference will feature two full days of presentations, discussions, lightning talks, and breakouts. We have also added a new full day of The Organizing Committee would like to invite you to training this year, featuring 3 parallel tracks with four attend a *free* Symposium on “Frontiers in Metage- workshops each, covering seven different topics. nomics” to be held in the beautiful Monsanto Audito- The Galaxy Community Conference is for: * Sequenc- rium at the Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center ing core facility staff * Bioinformatics core staff * Bioin- on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, Mis- formatics tool and workflow developers * Bioinformat- souri from May 7-8, 2012. ics focused principal investigators and researchers * The objective of the Frontiers in Metagenomics Sym- Data producers * Power bioinformatics users posium is to expose you to a dazzling range of current This event is about integrating, analyzing, and sharing applications which will be presented by a stellar group the diverse and very large datasets that are now typical of accomplished