PhD in High-throughput Analysis of Protein-Protein Interactions and Mechanobiology ETH Zurich in Switzerland

EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) is recruiting for a Postdoctoral Position in Image-Based Drug Screening Against Bacterial Pathogens in Lausanne, Switzerland. The project is hosted in the laboratory of Prof. Alex Persat (EPFL School of Life Sciences; p-lab.science) and aims to establish a new image-based drug screening platform targeting gram-negative pathogens, including Klebsiella pneumoniae , Acinetobacter baumannii , and Pseudomonas aeruginosa . The work combines microbiology ...

PhD position in single-molecule biophysics at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) , Netherlands. The project focuses on understanding molecular interactions in biological systems using single-molecule techniques , including protein-ligand interactions and protein-peptide interactions . The successful candidate will work in an interdisciplinary setting that combines single-molecule fluorescence , biochemistry , computational biology , data analysis , and machine learning . The research also...

EPFL’s AIMM Lab is hiring a PostDoc in collaboration with Novartis for research at the intersection of computer science , biology , and early drug discovery . The project focuses on developing multimodal foundation models for biology , including new model architectures, large-scale pretraining, and agentic interfaces . The role is especially relevant for researchers with strong experience in large-scale AI development and a solid biological background . Successful candidates will work closely wi...

Two PhD positions are available in protein engineering and biomineralization at Arizona State University in the research group of Dr. Hamed Khodadadi Tirkolaei . The project sits at the intersection of bioengineering , biochemistry , molecular biology , and materials science , with emphasis on protein design, phage display, and enzyme stabilization. Students with experience in these areas will be especially competitive. Eligibility highlights: an MS degree completed by the start date in protein ...

Funded PhD project at The Francis Crick Institute in London, United Kingdom, on the cryo-EM structure of mechanically unfolded proteins . The project is a 2027 Crick Joint PhD with Dr Sergi Garcia-Manyes and Dr Alessandro Costa , combining expertise from single-molecule mechanics and cryo-EM. The research sits at the intersection of biochemistry , biophysics , physical chemistry , molecular biology , and bioengineering . It focuses on how mechanical forces regulate protein unfolding and mechanot...