Jobs

ETH Zurich is hiring an Assistant Professor. Research areas include impact of viruses infecting bacteria, archaea or eukaryotes; biology of hosts; influence of persistent virus infections on immune defense; and/or new viral defense mechanisms or their applications in bioengineering.

The University of Pittsburgh is hiring a Research Specialist to study the diversity and utility of Actinobacteriophages.

UCSD is hiring a Staff Research Associate to perform molecular biology techniques including phage hunting and phage plaque assays.

Boston University is hiring an Alliance Director to lead CARB-X phage research and development initiatives, including helping manage CARB-X’s prevention portfolio, which includes projects involving vaccines, live biotherapeutics, phage and others.

Washington University Medical Campus, St. Louis, USA is hiring a Research Technician II - Molecular Microbiology to assist with experiments on diverse novel viruses, including those in the human virome.

Washington University Medical Campus, St. Louis, USA is hiring a postdoc to explore the largely uncharted domain of RNA phage biology, focusing on novel RNA phages and their interactions with bacterial hosts.

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (California, USA) is hiring a Research Associate to join the Mutalik Lab in the ENIGMA program, focused on phage research and microbial ecology understanding.

Elina Laanto at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland is hiring a postdoc join the ERC-funded project The Life of Giant Phages to study the biology of megaphages.

Max Planck Institute, Germany is hiring a postdoc to study phage-microbiota interactions, particularly within Drosophila populations.

The Hoer Lab at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research in Würzburg, Germany, is hiring a postdoc to investigate RNA phages, focusing on their role in bacterial immunity and regulation.

The Laboratory of Bacteriology Research at the University of Ghent, Belgium, is hiring a postdoc to computationally understand and model the efficiency of the Diversity Generating Retroelements system used by phages to diversify their proteins. This will be used in collaboration with David Bikard’s group (Institut Pasteur) to generate new variants of the Cas9 protein.

The RIVER lab at EPFL (Switzerland) is seeking an intern (MSc student ideally) to collect phages from stream biofilms and study hosts, defense mechanisms, counter-defense mechanisms, and abilities phage can add to their hosts (lysogenic conversion), etc.

Tina Liu’s lab at Rutgers University, New Jersey is hiring a postdoc to study molecular mechanisms of antiphage immunity in bacteria and archaea, focusing on the role and mechanism of CRISPR-associated nucleotide signaling.

Kevin Perthe at LKC Medicine, NTU, Singapore is hiring a Research Fellow to lead studies evaluating the potency and pharmacokinetics of therapeutic phages in animal models of bacterial infections.

The Alcaine Research Group at Cornell is seeking a technician in food science to help study microbial and enzymatic constituents of dairy, including bacterial cell culture, phage propagation, chemical and physical analysis of dairy products, and more.

The Lennon lab at Indiana University seeks a Research Associate to work on projects related to microbiology, ecology, and evolution, including dormancy (sporulation), phage infection, and plant-microbe associations.

The Villa lab at UCSD is hiring two Research Technicians to help understand structural dynamics and macromolecular interactions (including phage-host interactions) at high resolution.

Pieter-Jan Haas’ group at UMC Utrecht is seeking a postdoc to identify the most relevant defense and counter defense mechanisms in clinical strains and phages of the bacterial pathogen P. aeruginosa.

University of Exeter is hiring a Research Technician to support the work of the Westra and van Houte research teams on the development of synthetic phage therapy.

Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, is hiring a postdoc to model the ecological and evolutionary impacts of horizontal gene transfer and phage infections in microbial communities, integrating biophysics, ecology, and statistical physics.

Imperial College London is hiring a Research Associate for a project led by Prof. José R Penadés to investigate lateral transduction in phages, exploring its prevalence in nature and impact on bacterial evolution, particularly regarding antimicrobial resistance and virulence.