Jobs

Professor Mathias Middelboe at University of Copenhagen is offering a postdoc position in phage-pathogen interactions and use of phages to control Flavobacterium pathogens in rainbow trout in aquaculture.

A Teaching Assistant position is available for SEA-PHAGES, instructed by Dr. Corinne Maurice, at McGill University. The TA will instruct and guide 26 undergrad students in lab-based phage research techniques.

Colin Hill is recruiting a Research Assistant using job ID 067334) to join his Gut Phageomics Lab to investigate the role of phages in gut microbiome structure, function & assembly.

Li Deng’s lab at Helmholtz Center Munich and the Technical University of Munich is looking for a Ph.D. candidate to develop targeted approaches for manipulating the human microbiome.

Baylor College of Medicine is seeking a Research Technician II to join a group of Molecular Biologists and Microbiologists charged with understanding the molecular basis of mutation and cell evolution.

If you are in Nigeria and looking for a lab to do your phage work, Nnadi Nnaemeka is offering their fully equipped lab for Phage research in Jos, Plateau State.

University of Gdańsk and the Medical University of Gdańsk is seeking a post-doc to study the role of prophages in environmental adaptation and virulence of pectinolytic bacteria.

Phage biologists, take note — join an incredible of community scientists who are turning transformative biomedical research into solutions for disease, including Phage Therapy. UCSF Dept of Microbiology and Immunology/Gladstone Institute of Virology is inviting applications for a faculty position (Assistant, Associate, or Senior Investigator).

Bas Dutilh at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany is inviting applications for a postdoc position in viral ecology.

The Deng lab at the Technical University of Munich is seeking a PhD student to investigate novel therapeutics for preterm infant infections. The team will focus on gut colonisation by pioneer bacterial species and its interruption in preterm babies, which leads to diseases like necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), and test different phage therapy strategies in preterm piglets to fight against NEC-related pathogens.

ADM (Cork, Ireland) is seeking a Cell Culture and Bacteriophage Research Scientist to work on various research projects revolving around the support of basic microbiological cell culture platform and the isolation, purification, characterization, design, and production scale-up of novel phages.

Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland is looking to hire a laboratory technician with a background in microbiology; experience with clinical samples or bacteriophages is an advantage but not required.

The Jagiellonian University is looking for individuals with a PhD in a quantitative field like biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, or similar, who have relevant scientific achievements and experience in designing bioinformatic pipelines.

Bas Dutilh at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany is seeking a PhD candidate for their Viral Ecology and Omics Group to study phage diversity and host range across biomes. This position is part of the Cluster of Excellence “Balance of the Microverse” and offers interdisciplinary collaboration opportunities.

Bas Dutilh at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany is inviting applications for a PhD position in microbiome structure.

The Department of Bacterial Molecular Genetics of Faculty of Biology at the University of Gdansk seeks applicants for Assistant Profesor position in Biological sciences.

KU Leuven is seeking a postdoc with experience in synthetic biology and/or bioreactor process modelling for a bacterial synthetic biology research project aiming to exploit phage features to reprogram bacterial populations for controlled bioprocessing in a bioreactor.

Three research opportunities are available at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA in Silver Spring, Maryland. The participants’ project aims to evaluate the use of phage to treat Staphyloccocus aureus colonization and/or disease.

University of Leicester is seeking a Lecturer in Phage Biology.

The Joint Genome Institute is seeking a Research Scientist to join the Viral Genomics Group and lead research projects to characterize uncultivated viruses and their impact on microbiomes.

Walter Reed Army Institute of Research is seeking a Bacteriophage Therapeutics Research Technician II to establish new lab techniques, analyze results, and maintain lab operations.

The lab of Dr. Spencer Diamond at UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute is recruiting postdocs to join a team including Jennifer Doudna and Jillian Banfield to generate a systems level understanding of microbiomes, including the importance of individual microbial species, microbe-microbe interactions, plasmids, and phages.

The Silveira lab at the University of Miami is seeking a postdoc to investigate phage-bacteria interactions in South Florida ecosystems.

Gonzaga University is seeking a teacher-scholar for a one-year, non-tenure-track faculty position to teach introductory biology lecture and lab courses, including our Information Flow in Biological Systems course and a phage discovery lab.

Research Internship at Balgrist University: This full-time remunerated internship entails generating large scale datasets for phage activity against large collections of pathogenic bacteria, validating assays to best predict therapeutic effects, and refine the R&D process for phage selection. The candidate will be involved in an international network of researchers as part of the VIROINF project.

Fulbright Israel is offering up to eight fellowships to U.S. postdoctoral scholars who seek to pursue research in one of Israel’s academic institutions. The grants are open to researchers in all academic disciplines and support programs of research in Israel for up to 20 months. Candidates must be hosted by an accredited Israeli institution of higher education. The application deadline is Wednesday, September 15, 2023.