NORWAY; PHD FELLOWSHIP BIOLOGY

PhD position in population ecology, Trondheim, Norway One PhD position in population ecology with particular focus on the interaction between parasites and host populations is available at the Department of Biology, NTNU. The fellowship is for three years with the possibility of a fourth year including 25 % teaching duties to the Department of Biology.

The aim of the PhD project is to quantitatively investigate the coevolutionary dynamics between parasites and hosts, with particular emphasis on the impact of the infracommunity of parasites on host population dynamics in a metapopulation consisting of 18 insular populations of house sparrows (Passer domesticus) in northern Norway.
*Application deadline: May 22 2009. *

You can find the official job announcement in the following link:
https://secure.jobbnorge.no/visstilling2.aspx?stillid=57656

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Thor Harald Ringsby, Associate Professor (PhD)
Centre for Conservation Biology (CCB)
Department of Biology
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
NO-7491 Trondheim
Norway

Office: +47 73596277
Fax: +47 73596100
Mobile: +47 91897032

E-mail: Thor.Harald.Ringsby[at]bio.ntnu.no
Website Department of Biology: http://www.ntnu.no/biologi/english
Website CCB: http://www.ntnu.no/ccb
Website personal: http://www.bio.ntnu.no/users/thorr/