Graduate position:Simulating evolution under complex genotype-phenotype map

Graduate position

Simulating evolution under complex genotype-phenotype maps

Four year position to do a PhD at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).

This position is ideal for biologists with an interest in theory and evolution. This also includes students interested in evolution, evo‑devo, evolutionary theory, embryonic development, mathematical biology, quantitative genetics or population genetics.

The scientific question

Living organisms are very complex. Humans and other animals, for example, have complex organs with an exquisite distribution of cell types and tissues over space that lead to a functional whole. How has this complexity arisen in evolution? Moreover, how is it possible that such complexity arose not only through evolution but also arises in each individual and generation from the relative simple zygote. How are those two processes, evolution and development, related? Ultimately, this complexity has to do with ge...