University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: October 2024

Computational postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab is seeking a scientist and a postdoctoral fellow to work in the quantitative metabolic modeling group, with Hector Garcia Martin, developing machine-learning algorithms tailored to the needs of synthetic biology.

Assistant Professor in Microbiology – Western Kentucky University

The WKU Department of Biology invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track eligible faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor in Microbiology. Candidates for the Microbiology position will investigate prokaryotes in areas including but not limited to microbiomes, bioinformatics, gene expression, pathogenesis, host/parasite interactions, metabolism, and/or intracellular trafficking.

Two positions available in MacCready lab in USDA Cereal Crops Unit – Madison, WI

Both positions are located at the USDA Cereal Crops Unit here in Madison and will be in the lab of Kristi Gdanetz MacCready. The research in this lab is interdisciplinary with elements of plant pathology, microbial ecology, and plant biology. Pathogens of interest include Fusarium, Xanthomonas, and Pseudomonas infections of cereals, primarily barley. The mission …

Postdoc position at UW-Madison, WID

The University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks a postdoctoral researcher to study failure in STEM based on a video intervention and video game assessment. To apply for the position: Email a cover letter and CV to Sarah Miller, Co-PI, at sarah.miller@wisc.edu. Project Description and Postdoc Role To meet needs of the future, the United States must increase …

Congrats to alumna Ruth Isenberg, recipient of the 2024 Nat L. Sternberg Thesis Prize!

Ruth Y. Isenberg, PhD ’23, has been awarded the 2024 Nat L. Sternberg Thesis Prize. The international prize is awarded annually “for outstanding PhD work in the field of bacterial molecular biology.” In the prize’s 29-year history, Dr. Isenberg becomes the third UW-Madison recipient and the first recipient from a laboratory in the School of …