Studentships 2007
Detail of a coccosphere of Calcidiscus quadriperforatus undergoing transition from haploid to diploid phase.
Three year Natural History Museum-funded studentships are now available for October 2007 for any two of the following projects.
Please send any informal enquiries or applications (full academic CV and covering letter) to the relevant supervisor no later than Friday 16 March 2007. Minimum 2i (Hons) required.
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Relationships within and between the land snail faunas of the Southern and Northeast Deccan Plate Hotspots
This project will look at the biodiversity hotspot snail faunas from the northern and southern limits of the Deccan Plate.
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Bringing DNA barcoding and landscape genetics together
A molecular taxonomy of Biomphalaria in Lake Victoria and role in transmission of intestinal schistosomiasis.
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Biodiversity patterns of micro-beetles in the leaf litter of tropical forests
With Alfried Vogler and Paul Eggleton.
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Diversification and diets on tropical seashores
Phylogenetic analysis and fossil record of the rapanine murex snails.
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Efficient phylogenetic inference and caecilian evolution
Caecilian amphibians (Gymnophiona) are widely recognised as the least studied tetrapod Order.
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A functional comparison of earthworms and termites as ecosystem engineers
Are these groups functional analogues?
Toolbox
The Museum's smallest members of staff are our flesh-eating beetles, Dermestes maculates, who strip carcasses to the bone.