{"id":1050,"date":"2022-03-21T08:45:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T06:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifewp.bgu.ac.il\/wp\/pilos\/?page_id=1050"},"modified":"2022-05-16T09:36:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T07:36:58","slug":"open-position-response-of-ecological-communities-to-novel-environments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lifewp.bgu.ac.il\/wp\/pilos\/?page_id=1050","title":{"rendered":"Open Position: Response of ecological communities to novel environments"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1050\" class=\"elementor elementor-1050\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1cef36a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1cef36a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column 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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do organisms respond to environmental changes? What mechanisms promote their persistence? This is one of the most fundamental challenges in biology today. To explore it, join us in this exciting collaborative, international and interdisciplinary project! We have open positions in three countries!<\/span><\/p><p><b>What: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This project will explore the response of ecological communities to environmental change, using bacteria as a model organism. We will use a combination of theoretical, computational and empirical work to study the interplay between species-level and community-level responses to perturbations.<\/span><\/p><p><b>Where: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Positions are available in three countries:<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Computational and theoretical work will be done in the labs of Dr. Shai Pilosof (BGU, Israel) and Prof. Manlio De Domenico (Univ. of Padua, Italy).\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experiments will be carried out in the lab of Dr. James Hall (Univ. of Liverpool, UK).<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This international project requires (already funded) travel to the collaborators&#8217; labs.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><p><b>Who: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we are looking for Postdocs and PhD candidates who:<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have excellent working relations, collaborate well and are team players.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have a strong background in quantitative analysis.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are curious, enthusiastic and creative.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have excellent English communication skills (speaking and scientific writing).<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><p><b>Specific expertise required for theoretical\/computational work:<\/b><\/p><ul><li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experience with modeling or mathematically studying ODE systems (e.g., epidemiological or LV models).<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agent-based modeling is an advantage. For candidates with no experience &#8212; the ability to quickly learn ABMs.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strong programming skills in at least one of: Julia, Python, R, C++<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><p><b>Funding: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The position offers a highly competitive fellowship and funding for traveling abroad to the collaborators labs, courses and conference.<\/span><\/p><p><b>How to apply:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Please send a CV, a 1-page letter of why you are interested in joining and names of 2 referees (for recommendations) to the lab you wish to join:\u00a0<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Shai Pilosof (BGU, Israel): <\/span><a href=\"mailto:pilos@post.bgu.ac.il\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">pilos@post.bgu.ac.il<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prof. Manlio De Domenico (Univ. of Padua, Italy): <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"mailto:manlio.dedomenico@gmail.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">manlio.dedomenico@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. James Hall (Univ. of Liverpool, UK): <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"mailto:J.P.J.Hall@liverpool.ac.uk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">J.P.J.Hall@liverpool.ac.uk<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open PhD and Postdoc positions: Response of ecological communities to novel environments (funded by HFSP) Detailed Postdoc position Detailed PhD position How do organisms respond to environmental changes? What mechanisms promote their persistence? This is one of the most fundamental challenges in biology today. To explore it, join us in this exciting collaborative, international and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lifewp.bgu.ac.il\/wp\/pilos\/?page_id=1050\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Open Position: Response of ecological communities to novel environments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1050","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewp.bgu.ac.il\/wp\/pilos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewp.bgu.ac.il\/wp\/pilos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewp.bgu.ac.il\/wp\/pilos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewp.bgu.ac.il\/wp\/pilos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewp.bgu.ac.il\/wp\/pilos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/lifewp.bgu.ac.il\/wp\/pilos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"https:\/\/lifewp.bgu.ac.il\/wp\/pilos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1050\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewp.bgu.ac.il\/wp\/pilos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}