Ants, Bees, Genomes & Evolution @ Queen Mary University London
Joining the lab
We are always eager for smart & motivated people to come and work with us. The Organismal Biology department at QMUL includes many other behavioral and evolutionary genomics researchers; we share a cutting edge laboratory for genomics work and a powerful computing environment. We are located in East London, with many of us living locally (Hackney, Bow) - a 15 minute walk to 20 minute bicycle ride from the office.
If you’re interested in joining us, please provide by email a CV, and a short proposal. Projects should address major evolutionary or ecologically relevant questions, and/or major challenges in bioinformatics/genomics. We are happy for projects to include population genomics, comparative analyses, bioinformatics, molecular biology, software development, hacking, field or behavioral work.
Postdocs
We invite applications for fellowships (Marie Skłodowska-Curie & Royal Society). The biggest effort is usually to come up with a good project. Once a proposal is written it is often worth applying to several funding sources.
These can include:
- many national sources of funding (e.g., Swiss NSF, Fondation Fyssen, DAAD)
- EMBO
- putting together a BBSRC or NERC grant with you as a named researcher co-investigator
- FEBS
PhD positions
We are currently recruiting PhD students using the following schemes:
- Deadline: 2024-04-14: We’re thrilled to announce an exciting new PhD position in collaboration with Chris Laumer at the Natural History Museum. Apply now to join our team and contribute to cutting-edge research in this field.
Deadline 2024-01-31 QMUL BAME PhD studentship - for those from an underrepresented group in research: “Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic”. This covers UK stipend and “UK home fees” to the university. It does not cover international fees. Please get in touch with me so I can support your application.Open as of 2023-11-15 until filled. We have a joint PhD studentship with Chris Laumer at the NHM. Includes cool flatworms, transcriptome skimming and nanopores.Open CONACYT PhD studentship for those from Mexico - on “Genomic innovations in the superorganismal evolution”Open CSC China scolarship - apply by 2023-01-31.2022-08-30: We have an open “UK-fees” PhD position. Apply by 2022-09-15 with a CV and cover letter. This covers UK stipend and “UK home fees” to the university. It does not cover international fees.
PhD funding normally exists as part of multiple schemes. These include:
- RCUK Doctoral training programmes - application deadlines in January. The two programmes are slightly different, in that NERC is typically more for ecology & evolution type questions, while BBSRC has historically been more mechanistic. However, the boundary is very fuzzy - it can be relevant to apply to both. These programmes are accessible to UK residents and to EU citizens.
- Many national schemes exist (e.g., from your country of origin). Some of these are listed on QMUL’s page including:
- CONACYT (Mexico)
- Colfuturo (Colombia) provide 2 years of funding and we can potentially figure out the rest.
- Commonwealth Scholarships
- Newton fund (e.g., Newton-Bhabha)
- Commonwealth scholarships for high income countries (Canada, Australia, Trinidad…)
- US citizens can come with Marshall or Fullbright scholarships.
- Occasionally, we have specific funding for PhD positions.
- In some circumstances we accept self-funded PhD candidates.
Please get in touch if you want to apply for a PhD position.
Internships
We can in some cases host interns (for French students: par exemple pour les stages de M2 ou équivalent). This is much easier if you come with your own funding. Minimal duration is 5 months.
MSc students
Our department hosts at least 3 MSc progams that are relevant to our research - these programs typically last one year for full-time students, include taught courses and a 6-9 month research project.