Announcements

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Postdoctoral fellowships in evolutionary biology and related fields

We are now accepting proposals for Postdoctoral Fellowships at The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). We are looking to fund innovative approaches to outstanding problems in evolutionary biology. Proposals are due December 1. For more information, please see our website at https://www.nescent.org/science/proposals.php.

Call for proposals - sabbatical scholars and collaborative working groups
Proposals for Sabbaticals and for collaborative working groups (Working Groups and Catalysis Meetings) are now being accepted at The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). We are looking to support innovative approaches to outstanding problems in evolutionary biology. In particular, proposals that have a clear interdisciplinary focus, or involve evolutionary concepts in non-traditional disciplines, are strongly encouraged, as are proposals that demonstrate international participation and a mix of senior and emerging researchers, including graduate students. Proposals for Working Groups and Catalysis Meetings are accepted twice a year, with deadlines on July 10 and December 1. Proposals for Sabbaticals may be one semester to a full year (deadlines June 10 and December 1) or they may be for short-term visits (2 weeks to 3 months; deadlines on January 1, April 1, July 1 and September 1). NESCent is also now seeking to include graduate traineeship to our portfolio by offering one-semester fellowships for graduate students to pursue research either with a NESCent sabbatical scholar or with a NESCent Working Group.  For more information, please see our website at https://www.nescent.org/science/proposals.php.
Conference on Nematode Evolution - Survey

The organisers are conducting a survey to see how many people would likely attend a major conference on the Evolution & Ecology of Nematodes, which would be held in 2010 at a site in Europe (tentatively in the UK). You can find more information and the survey here

Meta-analysis seeking data on group size and parasitism

A National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent: www.nescent.org) working group is exploring ways to enhance meta-analyses and syntheses through broader requests for data. Here, we present one pilot request for data for a proposed synthetic work. Charles Nunn and Laszlo Garamszegi seek unpublished results and "pointers" to published results involving the association between group size and parasitism in vertebrates. The data will be used in a meta-analysis to investigate the links between sociality and parasitism. All published studies will be cited in resultant publications, and unpublished work may be given credit through consortium coauthorship for the person providing the data. For more information, please see: http://www.biology.duke.edu/noorlab/Nunn.html
If you have questions about the broader NESCent project of enhancing synthetic works, or have an idea for a synthetic work that you'd like to pursue that also would benefit from broader requests for data, please contact Mohamed Noor (Duke) or Maria Servedio (UNC-Chapel Hill), or see: http://www.biology.duke.edu/noorlab/SEED.pdf

 

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