The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Rice University (Houston, TX) invites applications for admission into our graduate program (MS and PhD). The department is home to a vibrant community of faculty, postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate scholars in ecology and evolution. Our program has particular strengths in population and community ecology, conservation biology, evolutionary ecology, and evolutionary genetics and genomics. The following faculty members are potentially accepting graduate students into their lab for Fall 2013: Amy Dunham – I am currently searching for students interested in the effects of altered functional diversity and habitat structure on species interactions and ecosystem processes. http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~aed4/amydunham/
Michael Kohn – Our lab employs molecular and bioinformatics tools to study the evolutionary dynamics of genes and genomes in populations and species. Some of our research projects have implications for conservation biology or medicine. http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~hmkohn/index.html Tom Miller – Demography, population dynamics, plant-animal interactions, symbiosis, invasion biology, theory-data interface. http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~tm9/ Luay Nakhleh – Population genomics in bacteria; phylogenomics in eukaryotes; the role of neutral and adaptive forces in network evolution. Personal website: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~nakhleh/; Group website: http://bioinfo.cs.rice.edu/ Nik Putnam – Comparative genomics, genome rearrangement and structural variation, phylogenetics, population genomics, bioinformatics. http://nputnam.web.rice.edu/Putnam_Lab_at_Rice/Welcome.html Volker Rudolf – Community ecology, ecological networks, climate change, intraspecific variation, predator-prey interactions, cannibalism, host- pathogen dynamics. http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~volker.rudolf/ Evan Siemann – Population and community ecology, forests, grasslands, plant ecology, insect ecology, plant/herbivore interactions, biodiversity, conservation. http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~siemann/evan.html We offer highly competitive financial support and light teaching requirements for graduate students. We are located in Houston, Texas, an exciting, diverse, and affordable city with world-class opportunities for dining, arts, and entertainment and access to diverse terrestrial and aquatic environments. Rice is located beside one of the country’s largest medical research centers, providing additional opportunities in bioinformatics and genomics. Completed applications should be received by January 10 to ensure full consideration. There is no application fee for US citizens and permanent residents. Prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to contact potential faculty advisors before applying. Complete information about the graduate program, including application instructions, may be found at http://eeb.rice.edu/graduate.html.
