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Congrats to Thy Nguyen, PhD!

Thy successfully defended her dissertation “The Role of Commensal Bacteria in Fungal Defense: Understanding Antifungal Mechanisms of the Human Skin Microbiome”.

Congrats to Joe Skarlupka, PhD!

Joe successfully defended his dissertation “Using oral swabs in dairy cows to correlate the rumen microbiome with production metrics and improve genetic selection”.

Congrats to Ibrahim Zuniga Chaves, PhD!

Ibrahim successfully defended his dissertation “Understanding the impact of SES on the human gut microbiome in a Wisconsin cohort”.

Postdoctoral Position in Microbiome Science

Applications are invited from ambitious, independent and motivated candidates to work in the area of host-microbiome interactions. This fully funded project is aimed at exploring the chemical diversity encoded within in the human microbiome and probing the biological function of metabolites produced by host-associated microbes on the skin. The candidate will work with a highly …

Computational Biologist/Bioinformatician Postdoc Position at McMaster University

Applications are invited from ambitious, independent and motivated candidates to work in the area of host-microbiome interactions. This is a full funded position supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and DARPA. Projects involve interrogating the interplay between the skin and/or wound microbiome with clinical outcomes to identify novel biomarkers. The candidate will work …

Congrats to MDTP trainer Vatsan Raman!

Congratulations to Professor Vatsan Raman, who has been named as the first S.C. Fang Professor.

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 …