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Job Wageningen UR (University & Research centre) - PhD position Ecogenomics of insect-plant interactions
PhD position Ecogenomics of insect-plant interactions
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Function types PhD positions Scientific fields Agriculture Hours 38.0 hours per week Education University Graduate Job number PSG-ENTO-0007 Translations en
Job description
Food-web ecology has shown that plant responses to herbivory constitute a major force in structuring insect communities. Herbivores that induce responses in plants affect the plant phenotype and thereby indirectly, i.e. mediated through the plant, affect other community members. Such plant responses to environmental changes in terms of herbivore attack have been extensively characterized for pair wise interactions using transcriptomics on molecular genetic model plant species. Yet, food webs include multiple interacting organisms at several trophic levels that cause combinations of stresses that interact in inducing a response in plants.
This project will address interactions among 4 trophic levels in a plant-insect system. The project will address the mechanisms that underlie the trophic interaction network that provides hyperparasitoids with cues to locate their otherwise inconspicuous hosts (primary parasitoids) and how this even allows hyperparasitoids to smell abundance of their hosts from plant-derived cues, using ~omics tools.
Requirements
Conditions of employment
Gross salary per month € 2042,= in the first year rising to € 2612,= per month in the fourth year, for a fulltime appointment.
Hay-profile: Promovendus
Contract type: Temporary, Tijdelijk dienstverband
Organisation
Wageningen UR (University & Research centre)
We are Laboratory of Entomology
The research on insect-plant interactions of the Laboratory of Entomology and Wageningen UR Plant Breeding addresses the interactions between plants and insects from the cellular to the community level. Our team addresses the molecular and community ecology of crucifer-insect interactions in the laboratory and the field, and consists of ecologists, entomologists, molecular biologists and chemists. We are a team of ambitious scientists that aim at an interdisciplinary approach to unravel biological phenomena underlying the functioning of ecological communities.
We are a part of Wageningen University and Research Centre.
Wageningen University and Research Centre
Delivering a substantial contribution to the quality of life. That's our focus – each and every day. Within our domain, healthy food and living environment, we search for answers to issues affecting society – such as sustainable food production, climate change and alternative energy. Of course, we don’t do this alone. Every day, 6,500 people work on ‘the quality of life’, turning ideas into reality, on a global scale.
Could you be one of these people? We give you the space you need.
For further information about working at Wageningen UR, take a look at www.jobsat.wur.nl.
Acquisition regarding this vacancy is not appreciated.
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