PhD in Marseilles-France, marine population genetics/metabarcoding

topic : URGENT PhD in Marseilles-France, marine population 
genetics/metabarcoding

We seek a highly motivated and well ranked PhD student to study the 
biodiversity of (marine) coralligenous habitats, at both the community 
and intraspecific levels, from data that will be mostly obtained using 
genetic tools including Next-Generation Sequencing, and analyzed taking 
into account ecological factors and marine currents (at both the local 
and Mediterranean scales).

The scientific interest relies in comparing diversity at the community 
level, assessed by metabarcoding and compared with traditional 
taxonomical methods, and diversity at the intraspecific level 
(population genetics or genomics), providing ways of testing hypotheses 
such as the neutral biodiversity one, for instance.
The ��implicated goal�� is to gain knowledge on these habitats, which 
provide important services and are very species rich, in order to 
propose new, efficient and cost-effective indicators of their ecological 
status, based on intra-specific and/or inter-specific diversity (to be 
tested).

The team working on this topic, financed by two European projects is 
locally composed of a post-doctoral fellow (starting in autumn 2014), a 
PhD student on coralligenous Socio-ecosystem (starting autumn 2014) and 
an engineer to help with meta-barcoding (to be hired before the end of 
2014), a last-year PhD student (diving, ecology, indicators), and 
several permanent researchers plus the diving team.

More details are available at:
http://www.otmed.fr/spip.php?article668#SujetChenuil

send applications and questions to Anne Chenuil
anne.chenuil@imbe.fr

Anne CHENUIL

Email: 

UMR 7263 (CNRS) - IMBE
Institut M��diterran��en de Biodiversit�� et d'Ecologie Marine et continentale (IMBE)
(Aix-Marseille Universit��)
Station Marine d'Endoume
Chemin de la Batterie des Lions
13007 MARSEILLE

Tel.: +33 (0)4 91 04 16 17
Fax:  +33 (0)4 91 04 16 35

Anne Chenuil