The Laboratory of Interactions and Global Change, at the Institute of Ecology - INECOL - (Xalapa, Mexico) is looking for talented M.Sc., Ph.D. students and Postdoctoral Fellows with broad interests in the ecology and evolution of plant-arthropod interactions to start their own project, or join our projects in Costa Rica and Mexico in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution (Washington D.C., USA).
Successful candidates will receive full fellowships (tuition plus stipend). Student Fellowships are 100% research appointments. Students will be able to select an international outside committee member. The institute will fund one trip per year to Mexico for outside committee members. Fellowships include seed funds for research, funds to attend national/international conferences (one per year), international courses (e.g. Organization for Tropical Studies courses in Costa Rica) and support for 6 months (M.Sc. students) or 1 year (Ph.D. students) internships in laboratories around the world. Students are not required to be teaching assistants. Candidates will be selected through the highly competitive CONACYT (the National Council of Science and Technology, Mexico) Fellowship Program. The deadline for non-Mexican applicants is February 6, 2015. The deadline for Mexican applicants is March 26, 2015. More information at: http://www.inecol.mx/posgrado/index.php/component/content/article/93-convocatoria-2015-aspirantes-a-estudios-de-maestria-y-doctorado-en-ciencias Postdoctoral positions supported by CONACYT are restricted to Mexican Nationals and Citizens. If you are interested in joining the lab. please send Carlos Garcia-Robledo (carlos.garcia[at]inecol.mx) a statement of intent, your CV and the names of three references. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Carlos Garcia-Robledo, Ph.D. Assistant Profesor Department of Multitrophic interactions Institute of Ecology (INECOL) Xalapa, Mexico and Research Associate Departments of Botany and Entomology MRC-166 National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution P.O. Box 37012 Washington, DC 20013-7012 e-mail:[email protected] http://www.bio.miami.edu/carlos/
