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Cardiff University President's Research Scholarship: Genetic diversity, resistance and resilience to climate change (Climate Change project) (PhD Studentship)
This is a Cardiff University President's Research Scholarship, part of a new £4M investment to coincide with the inauguration of Professor Sir Martin Evans (Nobel Prize for Medicine 2007) as Cardiff’s new President. All of the University Schools and Research Centres offering opportunities under the programme have demonstrated the real potential of the Scholarships to contribute to research excellence through significant, challenging and original PhD research projects and excellent PhD supervision and support. Other attractive features of the Scholarships include the presence of multiple President’s Scholars in each of the research areas and the guaranteed exposure of President’s Scholars to innovative technologies, theories, methodological approaches, and debates. More information on the President's Research Scholarships scheme is available here: www.cardiff.ac.uk/presidents
Project Title: Genetic diversity, resistance and resilience to climate change
Project Description:
Background:
This PhD studentship is available as part of the Cardiff University Climate Change Network (CU-CNN) President’s Scholarship Scheme, and interdisciplinary collaborative network involving six Schools, including the School of Biosciences, in which this studentship will be based. The project seeks to investigate the role of genetic variation in resistance and resilience to climate change using soil and aquatic invertebrates in the South-east Wales/Severn catchment area as model organisms. The project will focus on three related questions.
1. The relationship between within-species genetic diversity using target soil and aquatic taxa and among species diversity (measured using conventional taxonomy and DNA barcoding) at replicated sites within the region. Within species diversity will be estimated used genome-scale molecular markers (single nucleotide polymorphisms identified using RAD-tags)
2. An investigation of whether invertebrate populations which possess high genetic diversity are more resilient to experimentally manipulated climate change than those with low genetic diversity.
3. The relationship between within and among-species genetic diversity in selected sites with different climate-change related environmental stressor levels. Stressors will include pH (aquatic) temperature/altitude (soil).
Research into the genetic component of resilience and resistance has only recently become a focus of attention in climate change science (e.g. Luck et al 2003, Hughes and Stachowicz 2004; Reusch et al 2005) and remains at the very early stages. This project will use cutting edge molecular methods coupled with well developed ecological approaches to address some fundamentally important questions in climate change. The Organisms and Environment Division, School of Biosicences, Cardiff University is both well-known and well set-up for this kind of research, with population genomics (e.g. Joost et al 2007; Li et al 2010) and studies of climate change in aquatic (Durance and Ormerod 2007) and soil invertebrates (Emmerson et al 2005) being well established. The student will join the prestigious President’s Scholarship Scheme and thus will not only be integrated into the School of Bioscience’s postgraduate community but also the CU-CNN postgraduate system.
References: Durance I & Ormerod SJ (2007) Global Change Biol 13: 942; Emmerson M et al (2005) Global Change Biol 11: 490; Huches AR and Stachowicz JJ (2004) PNAS 101: 8998; Joost s et al (2007) Mol Ecol 16: 3995; Li R et al (2010) Nature 463: 311; Luck GW (2003) TREE 18: 311; Reusch TBH et al (2005) PNAS 102: 2826.
Supervisor: MWB, Prof SJ Ormerod, Dr TH Jones
Start Date: 1st October 2011
Funding
The award will cover tuition fees at the Home/EU fee rate and will provide a stipend at the UK Research Council rate (£13,590 for 2010/11).
Number of Awards Available: 1
Eligibility
Academic Criteria: Applicants must have a First Class Honours degree or a 2.1 plus a postgraduate Masters degree at Distinction level (or their equivalents) in a relevant subject.
Applicants whose first language is not English will be required to demonstrate proficiency in the English language (IELTS 6.5 or equivalent).
Residency: Open to all UK/EU students without further restrictions.
How to Apply
A CV and Covering Letter are required in the first instance (followed by a standard application for postgraduate study)
Applicants should then apply using the Online Application Service at www.cardiff.ac.uk/apply.
Application Deadline: 28th January 2011
Further Information
For more information contact Liesbeth Diaz.
Email: Diaz@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)29 2087 5772
For more further information about the President's Research Scholarships vist http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/presidents/
Please quote Scholarization.blogspot.com on your application when applying for this scholarship
Cardiff University President's Research Scholarship: Genetic diversity, resistance and resilience to climate change (Climate Change project) (PhD Studentship)
This is a Cardiff University President's Research Scholarship, part of a new £4M investment to coincide with the inauguration of Professor Sir Martin Evans (Nobel Prize for Medicine 2007) as Cardiff’s new President. All of the University Schools and Research Centres offering opportunities under the programme have demonstrated the real potential of the Scholarships to contribute to research excellence through significant, challenging and original PhD research projects and excellent PhD supervision and support. Other attractive features of the Scholarships include the presence of multiple President’s Scholars in each of the research areas and the guaranteed exposure of President’s Scholars to innovative technologies, theories, methodological approaches, and debates. More information on the President's Research Scholarships scheme is available here: www.cardiff.ac.uk/presidents
Project Title: Genetic diversity, resistance and resilience to climate change
Project Description:
Background:
This PhD studentship is available as part of the Cardiff University Climate Change Network (CU-CNN) President’s Scholarship Scheme, and interdisciplinary collaborative network involving six Schools, including the School of Biosciences, in which this studentship will be based. The project seeks to investigate the role of genetic variation in resistance and resilience to climate change using soil and aquatic invertebrates in the South-east Wales/Severn catchment area as model organisms. The project will focus on three related questions.
1. The relationship between within-species genetic diversity using target soil and aquatic taxa and among species diversity (measured using conventional taxonomy and DNA barcoding) at replicated sites within the region. Within species diversity will be estimated used genome-scale molecular markers (single nucleotide polymorphisms identified using RAD-tags)
2. An investigation of whether invertebrate populations which possess high genetic diversity are more resilient to experimentally manipulated climate change than those with low genetic diversity.
3. The relationship between within and among-species genetic diversity in selected sites with different climate-change related environmental stressor levels. Stressors will include pH (aquatic) temperature/altitude (soil).
Research into the genetic component of resilience and resistance has only recently become a focus of attention in climate change science (e.g. Luck et al 2003, Hughes and Stachowicz 2004; Reusch et al 2005) and remains at the very early stages. This project will use cutting edge molecular methods coupled with well developed ecological approaches to address some fundamentally important questions in climate change. The Organisms and Environment Division, School of Biosicences, Cardiff University is both well-known and well set-up for this kind of research, with population genomics (e.g. Joost et al 2007; Li et al 2010) and studies of climate change in aquatic (Durance and Ormerod 2007) and soil invertebrates (Emmerson et al 2005) being well established. The student will join the prestigious President’s Scholarship Scheme and thus will not only be integrated into the School of Bioscience’s postgraduate community but also the CU-CNN postgraduate system.
References: Durance I & Ormerod SJ (2007) Global Change Biol 13: 942; Emmerson M et al (2005) Global Change Biol 11: 490; Huches AR and Stachowicz JJ (2004) PNAS 101: 8998; Joost s et al (2007) Mol Ecol 16: 3995; Li R et al (2010) Nature 463: 311; Luck GW (2003) TREE 18: 311; Reusch TBH et al (2005) PNAS 102: 2826.
Supervisor: MWB, Prof SJ Ormerod, Dr TH Jones
Start Date: 1st October 2011
Funding
The award will cover tuition fees at the Home/EU fee rate and will provide a stipend at the UK Research Council rate (£13,590 for 2010/11).
Number of Awards Available: 1
Eligibility
Academic Criteria: Applicants must have a First Class Honours degree or a 2.1 plus a postgraduate Masters degree at Distinction level (or their equivalents) in a relevant subject.
Applicants whose first language is not English will be required to demonstrate proficiency in the English language (IELTS 6.5 or equivalent).
Residency: Open to all UK/EU students without further restrictions.
How to Apply
A CV and Covering Letter are required in the first instance (followed by a standard application for postgraduate study)
Applicants should then apply using the Online Application Service at www.cardiff.ac.uk/apply.
Application Deadline: 28th January 2011
Further Information
For more information contact Liesbeth Diaz.
Email: Diaz@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)29 2087 5772
For more further information about the President's Research Scholarships vist http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/presidents/
Please quote Scholarization.blogspot.com on your application when applying for this scholarship
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