Tämmönen kysely post-doc-paikkaa hakevalta kiinalaiselta

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Dr. Laura Kvist

Docent in molecular ecology and evolution

Department of Biology

90014-University of Oulu

Phone: +358 294 481218

From: ningping [mailto:ningping@researchabroad.net]
Sent: 9. lokakuuta 2013 16:58
To: Laura Kvist
Subject: - [Forefront tagged SPAM] - Dear Dr. Kvist Application for a postdoc fellow

Dear Dr. Kvist,

I am writing to inquire about the availability of obtaining a postdoctoral position in your institution. My name is Ping Ning. I am currently a research associate at the Laboratory of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS). I received my doctor’s degree in fish taxonomy and biosystematics from the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012. My dissertation title is “Study on the Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Zoogeography of the Nemipterid Fishes (Actinopterygii, Perciformes) of China Seas”.

I have many years of experience in field investigation, especially by marine research ship, data mining and statistical analysis using VB and Perl computer language. With deep understanding of marine ecology, marine biology, molecular biology and genomic related basic knowledge of theory and technology, I master some essential techniques, such as marine animal morphological and molecular taxonomy and anatomy (especially marine fish), microalgalculture, germiculture, extraction of plasmid, DNA extraction, PCR, high-throughput sequence assembling and gel electrophoresis technologies. In addition, I am proficient in some softwares related computational biology, such as PAUP, PHYLIP, MEGA, Velvet, SOAP denovo, Primer-E, Excel, Surfer, Adobe Illustrator, Flash Max 2004, Fireworks Max 2004 and so on.

As a research associate at the Laboratory of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS), I am currently conducting research in two major fields: (1) the adaptive evolution of Pacific sand lance (Ammodytes personatus) in the Yellow Sea and (2) the phylogenetics of suborder Percoidei (Actinopterygii, Perciformes) of China seas. My study focus on investigating how the fishes of Pacific sand lance adapt the complicated environment from an evolutionary perspective in order to  predict the response of the fishes to climate change in the global ocean ecosystem. I have collected sand eel specimens from different populations of China and assess basic morphological and ethological characteristics of different sand eel populations and their environments by new and historical data. Currently, I am collecting molecular data from genome of sand eel. Besides the mitochondria molecular markers, such as COI and 16S rDNA, some nuclear molecular markers, such as HSP 70 gene (which is associated with environmental adaption), and microsatellite region are used to detect the the population genetic and adaptive evolution. A paper entitled “Molecular Evolution of the Heat-inducible HSP70 in Fishes” has been finished.

In the second field, I plan to conduct a comprehensive investigation of suborder Percoidei of the China seas after systematic investigation and widespread specimen collection. I will explore the taxonomic status of every specimen by using traditional taxonomy method of morphological research and also try to identify similar species based on molecular phylogenetic methods. Recently, I sequenced the whole mitochondria genome of five species of suborder Percoidei and a paper entitled “A Phylogeny of Sparoid Fishes (Perciformes, Percoidei) Based on Whole Mitochondrial Genome Analyses” is under preparation.

Thank you for your time. I have attached my curriculum vitae for your review. If you need any additional information in support of my application, please feel free contact me. I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Ping Ning
Email: ningping1018@163.com