An interesting looking PhD project with top-up scholarship:

National Research Collections Australia (NRCA) top-up scholarship: A molecular view of Australian biodiversity - exploring insect genomes for major shifts in functional geneshttp://cba.anu.edu.au/opportunities/student-research/projects-opportunities/csiro-insect-collection-postgraduate

CSIRO’s collectionshttps://www.csiro.au/en/Research/Collections are vast storehouses of information about Australia’s biodiversity. These world-class repositories provide base-line data against which modern observations can be compared making them essential for taxonomic, genetic, agricultural and ecological research, and conservation and resource management.

Starting in 2018, this PhD project will use CSIRO’s collection resources in combination with DNA barcodes, Whole Genome Shotgun sequences and 600 recently sequenced transcriptomes to build the tree of life for selected Australian insect groups, exploring genomes for functional genes within this evolutionary context. The student will be located in Canberra at the Australian National Insect Collectionhttps://www.csiro.au/en/Research/Collections/ANIC (co-superviser Dr Andreas Zwick) and the Research School of Biologyhttp://biology.anu.edu.au/ at the Australian National University (co-superviser Prof Craig Moritz).

This CSIRO National Research Collections top-up scholarship will award $7,000pa stipend and $10,000pa operating. Please see herehttp://cba.anu.edu.au/opportunities/student-research/projects-opportunities/csiro-insect-collection-postgraduate for more information about the project, supervisor details and how to apply. Applications close 31 October.

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