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Last update 7/18/08
Postdocs
At the present time, there
are no funded postdoctoral positions available. If you are
interested in pursuing your own funding, please contact me:
jgleason@ku.edu.
Graduate students
I
plan to accept a Ph.D. student for entry in Fall 2009. If you are
interested in joining our group, please contact me (jgleason@ku.edu) as
soon as possible. I will only be accepting students wishing to
work on Drosophila, though there is much latitude in research
project. In general, I do not accept masters students as most of
my projects are long-term. I will consider masters students in
exceptional cases.
Undergraduate
students
Paid
hourly
assistants
There are no current open
positions and none anticipated for at least 6 months.
Biol.
424
credit students
I accept students who wish
to do
projects for credit. The MINIMUM
expected hours in worked in the lab are 10 hours
per week (20 hours per week during the summer).
The more time spent in the lab, the greater the experience.
Students must take have taken Biol. 350, Principles of Genetics.
Biol. 412,
Evolutionary Biology, although not required, is preferred.
Volunteers
Occasionally I accept
volunteers
to work in the lab. The
expectation of volunteers is that they have a set schedule for every
week. There is not a minimum in the number of hours one can
volunteer each week. However, with a minimum 10 hour/week
commitment, a volunteer can potentially run his/her own research
project.
Current independent projects for volunteers or credit students:
Effect of light on Drosophila
courtship
Some species of Drosophila will not mate in the dark whereas others do
just as well in light or dark. This phenomenon has not been
studied in many species groups. Other work in the lab has
demonstrated that courtship song varies considerably among species of
the D. saltans group but
nothing is known about visual dependence. Preliminary research
indicates that there is much variation in light dependency in this
group. This work requires basic behavioral analyses that are
easily learned.
Important signals in D. fumipennis courtship
Male D. fumipennis do not
produce courtship song. What signals are important in
courtship? These may be visual and/or olfactory. Nothing is
known about courtship in this species. This project will involve
manipulation of flies and testing for mating success. This work
requires basic behavioral analyses that are
easily learned as well as fine motor skills.
Duetting in D. saltans species
In some species of Drosophila, females make noises as well as the
males. These have not been investigated at all. This work requires basic behavioral analyses that
are easily learned.
Sexual selection in D. saltans species
What is important in D. saltans song?
What makes one male more attractive than another?
This work requires
basic behavioral analyses that are easily learned.
