Three Ph.D or M.S. student opportunities are available in the Winfree
lab at Rutgers University for fall 2010. The focus of our lab's work is
pollination ecology, broadly defined to include insect conservation
and plant reproductive biology. Please see http://winfreelab.rutgers.edu
for more information about our lab group.
1) A 1-year fellowship position is available for an outstanding
applicant to the Ph.D. program in Entomology. The fellowship includes
full tuition remission and a competitive stipend. The remaining years in
the Ph.D. program would be funded by a teaching assistantship (TA).
2) I have funding for a 6-month, $17,000 Research Technician position
(see job ad at http://winfreelab.rutgers.edu/join_us) beginning in April
2010. This is an excellent opportunity for a M.S. or Ph.D. student who
would like to continue with pollinator restoration as a thesis topic in
Fall 2010. A graduate student stipend would need to be obtained through
a TA or a merit scholarship, several of which are available through Rutgers.
3) In collaboration with Professor Peter Morin in Ecology & Evolution,
we have funding to establish experimental plots of native and non-native
plant species to investigate multi-trophic effects of invasions. This is
an excellent opportunity for a student interested in plant-pollinator
interactions and the effect of invasive species on pollination webs.
A graduate stipend would need to be obtained through a TA or a merit
scholarship.
I admit students through both the Ecology & Evolution
http://ecoevo.rutgers.edu and the Entomology
http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/gradprog.htm Graduate Programs.
If you are interested in joining the lab, please email me with a brief
description of your background and research interests, your
undergraduate university, major and GPA, and GRE scores.
--
Rachael Winfree
Assistant Professor
Department of Entomology
Rutgers University
Tel 732 932 8315
http://winfreelab.rutgers.edu
