Prospective Graduate Students

Labs accepting graduate students in 2012-2013

PHD	MS	Faculty Taking New Grads
y	y	Dewoody Evolutionary genetics; molecular ecology and evolution; natural history; conservation biology; wildlife and fisheries management.
Y	Y	Dukes Biodiversity and biological invasions: What properties of ecosystems make them susceptible to invasion by non-native species?
N	N	Emery Plant Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - Evolution of the ecological niche, plant population biology, community ecology and evolutionary biology.
Y	Y	Fernández-Juricic Evolution of visual systems in birds; anti-predator and foraging behaviors; human-wildlife interactions
N	N	Howard Genetically Modified Organisms: Invasion risks and The Trojan Gene Hypothesis.
Y	N	Lucas Animal Communication: peripheral auditory biology of birds; avian communication.
Y	Y	Minchella Host-Parasite Coevolution: How might a host modify the outcome of a parasitic infection?
Y	Y	Pelaez Vascular smooth muscle physiology and signal transduction, physiology and evolution, biology education, physiology education.
N	N	Rabenold Sciences Ecosystem Stability and Diversity: Landscape ("beta") diversity is a longstanding conceptual goal in ecology.

Funding opportunities:
Numerous funding opportunities are available to graduate students in the Department of Biological Science at Purdue University. Recent graduate students in the Ecology area have received fellowships and/or research funding from national and international sources, including the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program for Native American Graduate Education , the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF), Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Organization for Tropical Studies. In addition, Purdue University internal funding is available through the Andrews Environmental Fellowship and the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship. See Purdue’s Graduate Student Fellowship Manual and the Purdue Biological Sciences graduate student web page for listings of additional funding sources.

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