The Department for Behavioral Ecology at University of Göttingen, Germany seeks to fill 2 PhD positions.
The projects concern a) the energetics of aging in the wild and its consequences for sociality and health and b) prenatal stress effects on later sociality, health, and fitness. Both projects have a strong field component (Assamese macaques in Thailand) complemented by extensive lab work on immune-markers and hormone levels in the endocrinology lab of the German Primate Center Göttingen and on the functionality of the gut microbiome in the Dept. of Microbiology at University of Göttingen.
Follow the links to the official job advertisements
http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/305402.html?cid=13105
http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/305402.html?cid=13103
Both projects build on our long-term field research at Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary and are embedded in a larger research initiative on sociality and health in primates that unites researchers from the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig as well as from University and Primate Center in Göttingen.