We are grateful to the DFG for funding our new project on inbreeding, epigenetics and sexual trait expression in black grouse, together with Carl Soulsbury and Kees van Oers. We will advertise the PhD studentship shortly. Please watch this space!
Congratulations to David!
Congratulations to David Vendrami for winning a six month outgoing postdoc from the DAAD. David will be learning seascape genetics together with Prof. Mary Wisz at the World Maritime University.
Bye bye, Fee!
We’d like to wish Fee Cristaller all the very best for her trip to Portugal in her camping van. Have a safe journey, good luck with writing the thesis, and hope to see you again soon đ
Well done, Jonas
Congratulations to Jonas Tebbe for winning career bridge Master-Doctorate funding from the Bielefeld Young Researcher’s Fund for his project ‘understanding the genetic basis of odour in a wild vertebrate’.
Well done, David
Congratulations to David Vendrami for winning an Antarctic Science International Bursary!
Congratulations, Dr Shah!
Congratulations, Martin
Congratulations to Martin Stoffel for winning the Dissertationspreis der UniversitĂ€tsgesellschaft Bielefeld for the best PhD thesis in the Faculty of Biology in 2018! We all really enjoyed catching up with Martin at the ceremony and are glad to hear how well he’s getting on in Edinburgh.
Happy Birthday Joe
Happy Birthday Joe! We got lucky with the weather and the lab celebrated together with a seal piñata!
PhD studentship opportunity
Behavioural ecology meets disease biology and immuno-ecology in Madagascan shorebirds.
We are looking to recruit a PhD student for an exciting new project investigating the immuno-ecological causes of sex ratio bias in three sympatric species of plovers with varying mating systems at a single location in Madagascar.
The student will be based at the Department of Animal Behaviour at Bielefeld University (www.uni-bielefeld.de/biologie/animalbehaviour.html) and jointly supervised by Oliver KrĂŒger, Nayden Chakarov, Joe Hoffman and TamĂĄs SzĂ©kely.  The studentship is funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) and is available for 3 years.
Please see the attached PDF for more details including information on how to apply. The application deadline is September 30th 2019 and interviews will take place shortly afterwards. Please direct any informal inquiries to Oliver KrĂŒger (oliver.krueger@uni-bielefeld.de) or TamĂĄs SzĂ©kely (bssts@bath.ac.uk).
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A new lab baby!
We are all very excited about our new lab baby! Massive congratulations to Anneke Paijmans on the birth of her new baby girl – Hanna. What a sweetie đ