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ALT colorful map of the U.S. Lower 48 with bright colors showing high bird migration. Text on image: BirdCast Migration Alert. Thursday Night 504 million birds predicted. Friday Night 445 million birds predicted. Saturday Night 349 million birds predicted.
ALT The Faircloth, Kelly, and Dassanayake Labs at Louisiana State University are hiring a postdoctoral researcher (NIH salary scale) to collaborate on a 3-year NSF funded project investigating the genomic basis of thermal adaptation in populations of the splash pool copepod Tigriopus californicus. The splash pool copepod Tigriopus californicus displays divergent thermal tolerance traits across populations, has a short generation time, and is easily crossed and reared in the lab. We will combine experimental evolution with physiological measurements, transcriptome profiling, and whole-genome resequencing to identify mechanisms underlying three aspects of thermal adaptation that differ among Tigriopus populations and compare results of laboratory experiments to population resequencing data for two Tigriopus species distributed over parallel temperature gradients in North and South America. Results from this project will provide one of the most comprehensive maps of the genetic and physio
ALT flier: 3 year nsf funded postdoc. image of copepod and coastline
