Post-Doctoral Research Associate: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - UTK

Job description

The Tanner Lab (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Department of Psychology & Neuroscience) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) is seeking up to two motivated postdoctoral research associates to conduct acoustic communication research in non-human animals. The successful candidate will contribute to broad research themes in the lab, including the evolution of acoustic signals by sexual selection and decision-making in complex natural contexts. Current efforts in the lab explore how pre- and post-copulatory sexual selection shape sexual signals; choice overload and its consequences for decision making in animals; constraints to the expression of mating preferences, especially the effects of noise; and the causes and consequences of within-individual variation in acoustic signaling. The Tanner lab has two large (3.9 m length x 3.4 m width x 2.6 m height) state-of-the-art, temperature-controlled, semi-anechoic chambers available for studies of acoustic communication behaviors. We work primarily in frogs native to our location in East Tennessee, especially gray and green treefrogs ( Dryophytes chrysoscelis and D. cinerea ), but also with field crickets (Gryl...