The Brooks Lab at Mississippi State University is seeking highly motivated Ph.D. students interested in the role of host trait distributions and their effect on consumer dynamics and invasion. Much of the work in the lab centers around the interaction between two different species of cactus moth (one native and one exotic) and their host plants (Opuntiod cacti). I would like to recruit one or two new Ph.D. students (exceptional M.S. candidates will be considered) with interest in invasion ecology, population ecology, theoretical ecology and modeling, or host-consumer interactions. You can find out more by visiting the lab webpage at: http://cbrooks.wix.com/brookslabmain
Interested students should send a current vita along with a brief statement of their research interests and goals to cpbrooks[at]biology.msstate.edu. Include any relevant (unofficial) test results from the GRE, TOEFL (if necessary), etc. Be sure to include both raw scores and percentiles. Information on Graduate Studies in the Department of Biological Sciences is available at http://biology.msstate.edu/degrees/graduate The Department of Biological Sciences at Mississippi State University is home to faculty with broad research interests in ecology and evolution. This group and the newly-renovated facilities in the department provide an excellent opportunity for an excellent graduate education in ecology.
