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Join the SSE Graduate Student Advisory Council!

The SSE Graduate Student Advisory Council (GSAC) is in search of three additional PhD student members to serve in the 2020 cohort! Applicants should be organized, possess leadership skills, and be interested in working with SSE members to contribute to the society. The GSAC represents student and postdoc interests to the SSE Council and facilitates interaction among students and postdocs and between students, postdocs, and mentors. Our goal is to become a source of information for students to use both during their graduate school career and as they make career transitions.

The primary role of all GSAC members is to communicate with the SSE's graduate student and postdoc membership and liaise with the SSE Council on their behalf. One GSAC member per cohort will be chosen to attend Council meetings. GSAC organizes multiple networking and professional development events for the summer Evolution meeting. Secondary roles include maintaining social media accounts to facilitate networking among SSE student members, assisting in review of Lewontin Grant Award applications, and assisting with initiatives led by other SSE committees. Other roles are continuing to be established, and ideas are welcome! Students will serve either a 2 or 3 year term and generally spend 5-10 hours per month on GSAC activities. Please see the GSAC structural document in the Officers Handbook for more details about requirements and current roles.

To apply, please submit (1) a one page statement of interest, focusing on the ideas you would like to bring to GSAC, your experience working with a diverse team, and your interest in the Society for the Study of Evolution, and (2) a copy of your CV to: GSAC@evolutionsociety.org by April 15, 2019.

Student Council

GSAC at the Evolution 2017 meeting
From left: Jodie Wiggins, Melissa E. Kemp, Aide Macias Muñoz, Megan Kobiela, Cathy Rushworth, Daren Card

To reach us, email GSAC [at] evolutionsociety.org with any questions, comments, concerns, or ideas!

Current SSE GSAC Council Members

	Liz Lange Member 2018-2020, Chair 2019 GSAC [at] evolutionsociety.org I am a PhD candidate at Florida State University studying the maintenance of variation in life history and behavioral strategies in fish.
	Jodie Wiggins Member 2017-2019, Chair 2018 I am a postdoc at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville working with the Phylotastic project. I am interested in all things evolution and am currently working to develop classroom resources to make the biological tree of life more accessible.
	José Cerca Member 2018-2019 I am a PhD student in Evolutionary Genomics and Zoology at the University of Oslo (Norway). I study evolutionary processes and genome architecture in cryptic species complexes.
	Melissa Plakke Member 2018-2019 I am a PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh where I am currently studying reproductive coevolution and its potential for driving speciation in butterflies.
	Sally Chang Member 2019-2020 I am a postdoc in evolutionary genomics and computational biology at the National Human Genome Research Institute. My research focuses on the assembly and characterization of cnidarian genomes and analysis of associated population genetic patterns, especially in relation to the evolution of novelty and complexity.
	Andis Arietta Member 2019-2020 I am a PhD candidate in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. My research focuses on contemporary adaptation and eco-evolutionary dynamics in metapopulations. I currently work with wood frogs (Rana sylvatica).

Student Awards

Graduate Research Excellence Grants
W. D. Hamilton Award
T. H. Huxley Award
R .A. Fisher Prize
Outreach grants
Graduate/Postdoc Travel Awards
International Committee Travel Awards

Past GSAC Members