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 […]
PhD: IMPRINTING AND PLOIDY IN BUMBLEBEES, LEICESTERDeadline for applications: 7 January 2022Project highlights– Building on NERC funded and CENTA PhD work on bumblebees, an important pollinator.– How are imprinted diploid genes used in a haploid sex?– Are different genes imprinted at different stages?OverviewThis project asks how can imprinted genes exist in a haplodiploid organism. Genomic […]
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 […]
Application deadline: 1 December 2021 1) The first project is on the « Importance and sustainability of endangered communities of bee pollinators in the machair, a changing coastal ecosystem ». This is a 3.5 years CASE project, part of a competition funded by QUADRAT NERC DTP and the Bumblebee Conservation Trust (https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org) and in collaboration with Dr […]
Registration is now open for the winter meeting of the IUSSI with a deadline of the 15th of November for abstract submission. The conference will take place over Zoom on 3 afternoons from the 16th to the 18th of December with keynote talks from: Lotta Sundström (University of Helsinki, Finland) Yusuf Abdullahi Ahmed (University 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: AGEING IN SOCIAL ANIMALS, UEA PHD STUDENTSHIP OPPORTUNITY: The ageing bee: how does sociality affect ageing in social animals? PhD to study sociality and ageing in bumble bees at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Supervisors: Andrew Bourke (a.bourke@uea.ac.uk), Alex Maklakov, Tracey Chapman (all UEA) Closing date for applications: TUESDAY 7 […]