The Department for Behavioral Ecology at University of Göttingen, Germany seeks to fill 2 PhD positions.
The projects concern a) the
energetics of aging in the wild and its consequences for sociality and
health and b) prenatal stress effects on later sociality, health, and
fitness. Both projects have a strong field component
(Assamese macaques in Thailand) complemented by extensive lab work on
immune-markers and hormone levels in the endocrinology lab of the German
Primate Center Göttingen and on the functionality of the gut microbiome
in the Dept. of Microbiology at University
of Göttingen.
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Both projects build on our
long-term field research at Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary and are
embedded in a larger research initiative on sociality and health in
primates that unites researchers from the Robert Koch Institute
in Berlin, the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig as well as
from University and Primate Center in Göttingen.