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We are recruiting two PhD students to study the ecology of the invasive Bombus terrestris population in Australia as part of a new Hort Innovation grant titled « Progress on bumble bees as commercial pollinators in Australia: update on risks and opportunities (PH23001) ». The goal of the project is to use radio tracking and neuromorphic AI […]

Lieu : Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale (CRCA-CBI), TOULOUSE (31000) Date de début : à partir de Décembre 2023 jusqu’à mai 2024 Durée : 1 à 2 mois (non gratifié) Responsables : Blandine Mahot-Castaing (Ingénieure d’étude), Mathilde Lacombrade (Doctorante), Mathieu Lihoreau (Chercheur CNRS) Profil recherché : Etudiant(e) de niveau master 1 ou licence […]

Les pollinisateurs sont soumis à des pressions multiples dont les importances relatives, dans le cadre de leur déclin généralisé, sont encore mal connues. Parmi elles, l’exposition aux polluants chimiques d’origine anthropique pourrait contribuer significativement à ce déclin, par toxicité directe ou par induction d’effets sub-létaux. En zone urbaine, les pollinisateurs peuvent échapper aux insecticides grâce […]

Application Review started 1 November 2021 but position will remain open until filledThe Hines Lab at The Pennsylvania State University (Biology Department, University Park, PA, USA; hineslab.org) is hiring a Postdoctoral Scholar to perform research on an NSF-funded project examining the genetic basis of mimetic color diversity in bees. The postdoc will lead a project […]

Deadline: 7th January 2022Application: https://www.iapetus2.ac.uk/how-to-applyBackground:Bumblebees are agriculturally important pollinators, but are currently declining in abundance in the UK and around the world, in part due to climate change (Soroye et al. 2020). Understanding these declines requires research on the biology and ecology of these species. Bumblebees are thought to be generalists, pollinating a variety of […]

  Deadline: 6 January 2020 PhD: Studying bumblebee population dynamics and adaptations to understand plant-pollinator evolution under climate change Supervisors: Richard Gill, Jacob Johansson & Keith Larson To date our understanding of how insect pollinator declines are influenced by climate change remains limited. For instance, why have some species shown evidence of latitudinal range shifts in […]

PhD positions to study the ‘omics cascade of bumble bee cold tolerance   Funding for PhD students is available at The University of Alabama as part of a recently awarded NSF Rules of Life project: “Bumble bee cold tolerance across elevations – From epigenotype to phenotype across space, time, and levels of biological organization”. PhD […]

PhD POSITIONS: EPIGENOME-TO-PHENOME OF BUMBLE BEE THERMAL TOLERANCE, ALABAMA Multiple PhD positions are available in the laboratories of Jeff Lozier and Janna Fierst at The University of Alabama as part of a recently awarded NSF Rules of Life project: « Bumble bee cold tolerance across elevations – From epigenotype to phenotype across space, time, and levels […]

PhD Positions to Study Epigenome-to-Phenome of Bumble Bee Thermal Tolerance: Multiple PhD positions are available in the laboratories of Jeff Lozier and Janna Fierst at The University of Alabama as part of a recently awarded NSF Rules of Life project: “Bumble bee cold tolerance across elevations – From epigenotype to phenotype across space, time, and […]

POSTDOC:  JERUSALEM Diversity in body size underlies two of the organization principles of bumblebee societies: worker division of labor and caste determination, but little is known on the proximate mechanisms regulating body size and how they are socially regulated. This project explores how social cues such as pheromones, behavior, and queen regurgitates, interact with endocrine […]

POSTDOC:  UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE The Woodard and Yamanaka Labs in the Department of Entomology at the University of California, Riverside are seeking to recruit a postdoctoral researcher to study bumble bee larval development. The postdoc will use a variety of molecular methods (including but not limited to RNAseq and RNAi) to explore the proximate […]

Contrôle d’altitude chez le bourdon : les invariants optiques Naviguer dans un environnement inconnu est une tâche aujourd’hui impossible à réaliser par un micro aéronef de quelques grammes, mais qui est réalisée tous les jours avec aisance par les insectes volants. Il existe donc des principes performants, basés en particulier sur des traitements adéquats de l’information […]

Fully funded PhD opportunity in pollinator ecology at the University of Oxford, UK – UK or EU nationals only Global declines of both wild and managed insect pollinators threaten ecosystem function and human food security. Pollinator declines have been specifically linked to declines in the abundance and diversity of floral resources, the use of agrochemicals, […]