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Dr. Daniel Piechowski

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Phone: +49 7531-88-4916
Fax: +49 7531-88-4917

Email: dpiechowski@​orn.mpg.de

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PhD Projects 2013

PhD Projects 2013

This is the list of our 2013 PhD projects. Application deadline was January 15, 2013.

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Evolutionary ecology of dispersal

Keywords behavioral ecology, animal personality, life-history, dispersal, songbird
Main advisor Niels Dingemanse, MPIO Seewiesen [more]
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Evolution of social behaviors

Keywords behavioral ecology, indirect genetic effects, island population, quantitative genetics, social environment, social networks, songbird
Main advisor Julia Schroeder, MPIO Seewiesen 

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Isotopic finger-printing of contemporary and historic changes in copepod trophic position following a shift in in lake trophy

Keywords stable isotopes, zooplankton, copepods, trophic structure
Main advisor Elizabeth Yohannes, University of Konstanz

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The genetic basis of behavioral "handedness" in scale-eating cichlid fish

Keywords left-right asymmetry, laterality, dimorphism, ecological specialization, QTL mapping, population genomics, next-generation sequencing
Main advisor Axel Meyer, University of Konstanz

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Ecology and genomics of parallel speciation of cichlid fishes in Nicaraguan crater lakes

Keywords sympatric speciation, parallel evolution, ecological genomics, evo-devo, transgenics, next-generation sequencing
Main advisor Axel Meyer, University of Konstanz

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Physiological and behavioral ecology of black and white-browed coucals

Keywords sex-role reversal, mating system evolution, territorial behavior, telemetry, nestlings, fledglings
Main advisor Wolfgang Goymann, MPIO Seewiesen

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Seasonal brain size changes in the common shrew

Keywords Dehnel's phenomenon, neurobiology, ecology, metabolism
Main advisor Dina Dechmann, MPIO Radolfzell

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Neural mechanisms underlying vocal communication of crows

Keywords vocal communication, birds, neural mechanisms
Main advisor Manfreg Gahr, MPIO Seewiesen [more]
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The song learing related genome of birds

Keywords song learning, birds, genome, transcriptome
Main advisor Manfred Gahr, MPIO Seewiesen [more]
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Social colony defense in ants

Keywords olfaction, ants' nestmate recognition, aggression, social behavior, self-organization, neurobiology
Main advisor Christoph Kleineidam, University of Konstanz

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Interested in one of these PhD projects? Apply here!

 
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