The
Swine Teaching and Research Center located on the New Bolton Center
campus of
the School of Veterinary Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania
is looking to fill a
postdoctoral
position starting July
1, 2017
(or
sooner if
possibl
e), under the direction of
Thomas D. Parsons, VMD, PhD. Talented individuals are being recruited to join a
research program that addresses the social behavior and wel
fare of gestating sows
housed in large groups. Specific projects continue to explore the notion of animal
personality and the delineation of behavioral phenotypes in
large pen gestation as well
as looking at novel
metrics
of affective st
ate
. Work will be carried out at the Penn Vet
Swine
Center that houses a 250 sow herd and provides a unique opportunity to study
gestating sows under a variety of housing scenarios. Expertise in applied ethology,
experimental design, and statistics is highl
y desirable. Please contact Tom Parsons
(thd@vet.upenn.edu
) if you are interested.