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$66,450 a year
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- Position Summary The Department of Herpetology at the American Museum of Natural History seeks a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the areas of evolutionary and genomic biology.
- The postdoctoral fellow will be based in the Burbrink Lab, and collaborate with Dr. Tiago Simões (Princeton University) and Dr. Marc Tollis (Northern Arizona University).
- Along with these collaborators, the Research Associate will work on the NSF-funded collaborative project “The Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations in the Squamate Tree of Life."The postdoc will help with the main goal of exploring the genomic foundations of evolutionary innovations throughout Squamata (lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians).
- The postdoc working with Dr. Burbrink will be responsible for producing high-quality whole genome data for squamates, which will include extracting high molecular weight DNA, performing quality control on samples, sending samples for sequencing and assembling and annotating genomes.
- Additionally, the postdoc will help analyze integrated genomic data, develop computer code and write manuscripts focusing on macroevolutionary analyses relating rates of genetic and morphological evolution across deep time.
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