Category: Job opportunities

Post doc opportunity with Julie Maresca at University of Delaware

This project involves developing genetic tools for environmentally relevant freshwater Actinobacteria with NSF funding. Applications will reviewed around 9/15. If you have any questions, please ask Julie Maresca or Erica Majumder. Feel free to pass along to colleagues.

Post doc opportunity with Brian Pfleger, UW Madison

Brian Pfleger’s lab at UW Madison is seeking out post docs. Requirements: PhD in Engineering, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Microbiology or other related fields. The positions will be part of a team performing research to engineer bacteria to produce small molecules in high rates, titers, and yields. Preferred candidates will have experience with a subset of the …

Opportunities with Illumina

Illumina is expanding globally and has something like 33 openings in Madison right now, including Fermentation and Purification Production scientists. There is also a Bioinformatics position, although the hiring manager for this is in San Diego. It may be a remote or partially remote position.   There is also a Product Development team in Madison …

Adjunct teaching position at Lasell University

Lasell University in Newton, MA is in need of an Adjunct Professor to teach Microbiology this upcoming Fall semester.  Here is the link for the opening: https://www.lasell.edu/discover-lasell/human-resources/employment-opportunities/faculty-positions/adjunct-faculty–microbiology.html

Job opportunity with Additional Ventures

Additional Ventures seeks a Project Manager, Awards with a scientific background to be an integral part of its small team that is focused on single ventricle heart defects. We utilize high-touch, responsive request for proposal (RFP) and post-award processes that support investigators & their work in creative ways to yield impactful results. We are actively …

Post doc opportunity at UCSF

The UCSF California Preterm Birth Initiative (PTBi) is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar who identifies as an under-represented minority and is interested in microbiome medicine and prematurity research. The fellow will join a NIH-funded project that examines adverse outcomes among preterm infants. S/he will investigate microbiome functional development and metabolic productivity in early life and its …

Post doc position with Jeff Boyd at Rutgers University

We are recruiting a Postdoctoral Scholar to examine iron ion homeostasis in gram-positive bacteria. The position will focus on the study of the mechanisms that cells use to 1) build inorganic protein prosthetic groups called iron-sulfur (FeS) clusters, and 2) maturate FeS proteins. These processes, which are essential for life, are also antibiotic targets. The …

Postdoc Position in Fungal Immunology  

Key Responsibilities: A post-doctoral position is available in the Keller laboratory to study the human fungal pathogen, Aspergillus fumigatus. Focus is on elucidating the molecular crosstalk between mammalian and fungal cells with focus on the hypothesis that host receptors recognize and respond to Aspergillus lipid signals (1, 2). The applicant should hold a Ph.D. or …

Job opportunity with the Aspen Institute

I’m excited to share the job posting for an Aspen Institute Civic Science Fellow to work full-time for 18 months, starting in September, on “Our Future Is Science,” a joint initiative between the Aspen Institute and Coda Societies designed to spark passion, confidence, and curiosity about science for high-school-aged Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). The initiative will help grow a thriving …

Post doc opportunity with Georg Hochberg at Marburg, Germany

The Hochberg group in Marburg is looking for a self-motivated postdoc to study how molecular machines become more efficient and complex through evolutionary history starting as soon as possible. The position is funded by a Human Frontiers Grant for three years to study the evolution of the epsilon proteobacterial flagellum as part of a collaboration that …