The period specified for elaboration will be two years. Financial support is available for suitable candidates. Reproduction biotechnology including hormonal treatment, AI, embryo collection and transfer are the components of an interesting experimental work. Experiance in handling of laboratory animals such as rabbits are adventageous but not an obligate prerequisite. The study will last two to two and a half year.
Financial support is available for suitable canditates.
Starting from Africa, D. melanogaster colonized the rest of the world about 10.000 years ago. During the colonization the D. melanogaster populations had to adapt to a novel environment. We have developed an efficient method to identify genomic regions containing genes responsible for these adaptations. The Ph.D. project is aiming to identify and characterize mutations responsible for the adaptation to a novel environment. The short generation time of bacteria permits the tracing of adaptation processes in the laboratory.