Category: Job opportunities

The Ohio State University Center of Microbiome Science (CoMS) invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor positions in Microbiome Sciences. These appointments are designed to enhance our campus-wide microbiome research community and scope. We welcome research on microbiomes in any ecosystem context (natural environments, plant/animal/human hosts, or engineered), organismal focus (microbial eukaryote, prokaryote, virus, or …

Department of Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology at The University of Chicago – Mukherjee Lab Position available for a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Dr. Sampriti Mukherjee. The Mukherjee Lab investigates how pathogenic and environmental bacteria integrate metabolism and environmental sensing to survive and thrive. Our research seeks to uncover the fundamental regulatory systems …

The McClelland lab at UC Irvine has available a two-year postdoctoral fellowship partly funded by the USDA, which is open to USA residents. Briefly, we are comparing the phenotypes of large numbers of sequenced strains and serovars to map natural variation and confirm these differences by genetics. Contact mmcclell@uci.edu for more information.

A research associate (postdoctoral position) is available in the Evans Lab at Michigan State University’s Kellogg Biological Station in soil microbial biogeography and conservation in the US Midwest. The postdoc would work on a USDA-funded grant examining effects of conservation zones (zones of native prairie or perennial grasses embedded in agricultural lands) on ecosystem services in the …

This is an advanced-level scientific position requiring a PhD, Master’s degree, or equivalent experience in microbiology, environmental microbiology, microbial ecology, or a closely related discipline. The role focuses on studying microbes in freshwater and/or soil environments to support product development and process improvement. The position involves independent research, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and mentoring responsibilities.

The Hecht Lab at Mayo Clinic is seeking a highly motivated, creative, and collaborative postdoctoral research fellow. The successful candidate will have a strong interest in basic and translational research focused on how the gut microbiome influences gastrointestinal and liver diseases, and how diet can be leveraged to shape microbial function and disease outcomes. Aaron Hecht, …

Mustafa Ozcam is recruiting for his new lab at the University of Maryland School of medicine, focusing on early-life diet, functional capacity of the gut microbiome, and immune tolerance.

The Palacios group at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to focus on the gut microbiome and Alzheimer’s disease epidemiology.  Our group has a close and longstanding collaboration Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center.  We welcome candidates with strong quantitative and microbiome analytic skills and an interest in brain …

The Gong Lab in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is inviting applications for a postdoctoral research associate to work on the development of innovative multifunctional drug nanocarriers, which can be used to deliver various types of payloads (e.g., CRISPR genome editors, nucleic acids, proteins, peptides, and small molecular …