Student Opportunities for
Graduate, Veterinary, and Undergraduate Student
Study and Research
Ernest Lab - Ecological Genetics & Wildlife Population Health
Quality education is a priority with us.
For Fall 2012, due to graduate student funding challenges in California, only exceptional applicants with excellent funding opportunities for their research, stipend, and tuition can be considered (that means students who have secured fellowships prior to starting their graduate degree).
Our lab is home to graduate students with a high level of scientific curiosity, strong academic background, and desire to conduct creative ecological genetics and/or wildlife disease ecology research. Keys to success includes demonstration of strong academic background (excellent GPAs, GREs, etc), some type of background in laboratory genetics, disease biology, and/or field experience with wild bird/mammal banding/capture, along with ability to work well with others, and interests in research directions of our lab group:
- Developing and answering important questions in wildlife health and conservation ecology
- Wildlife genetics, population health, and/or disease ecology
- Applications of genomics, disease diagnotic tests, field ecology, natural history, habitat modeling using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), avian population monitoring methods (MARK, DISTANCE, MAXENT, etc), statistics, and/or wildlife epidemiology methods..
- Free-ranging California birds (current focus is on hummingbird ecology, health, and population genetics) and California mammals (current areas of focus include disease ecology and/or landscape genetics in black bears, bighorn sheep, wild pigs, sea otters, and mountain lions).
Read graduate student opportunities page for more details
VETERINARIANS AND VETERINARY STUDENTS
Veterinarians with interests and the desire to work toward a graduate degree are very welcome to inquire. Check out the MPVM program (Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine) and also our graduate student opportunities page for other graduate programs..
Veterinary students with interests in the summer STAR internship are very welcome to inquire.
Check out the joint DVM and PhD Veterinary Scientist Training Program (VSTP) progra m at UC Davis.
For academic year 2011-2012, there currently are no open positions for undergraduates.
We enjoy working with undergraduate students in the wildlife DNA lab and typically maintain 1-2 positions to provide valuable laboratory experiences. We post openings to the UC Davis internship center web site (search under Dr. Holly Ernest and wildlife genetics).
