Ph.D. position Rutgers University in United States

Aaron Leininger, Assistant Professor at Tulane University, is recruiting PhD students to join his group in the Tulane School of Science and Engineering. The opening is in Environmental Microbiology , with research likely centered on microbial processes in environmental systems, microbial ecology, and related topics at the interface of biology and environmental science. This is a PhD opening starting in Spring or Summer 2027 . The post does not mention funding details, tuition coverage, stipend, ...

Postdoctoral positions are available in the Voigt Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The lab, led by Chris Voigt, works across MIT Biological Engineering, Computational & Systems Biology, and Microbiology graduate programs, with research centered on synthetic biology. Research themes include synthetic biology for manufacturing challenges, environmental and agricultural applications, and health-related synthetic biology. The post is especially r...

Texas A&M AgriLife Research is advertising a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in College Station, Texas, United States , within the Department of Animal Science . The project sits in an active One Health research program focused on how bacterial stress responses and multispecies biofilm ecology contribute to the persistence of zoonotic foodborne pathogens , and how pre-harvest interventions can reduce these pathogens in beef on dairy production systems . The role combines controlled labo...

Washington University in St. Louis is advertising a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the Kau Lab focused on allergy & immunology , microbiology , biochemistry , and animal models . The lab studies how the microbial ecology of the gut, airway, urinary tract, and other mucosal surfaces interacts with host factors to influence human health. The work is laboratory-based and includes mouse handling , microbial metagenomic sequencing (including whole-genome and RNA sequencing), basic microb...

Baylor University’s Department of Biology is recruiting 2–3 funded PhD students for a Fall 2027 start. The research focuses on microbiomes and the ways microbial communities influence health, organisms, and environments. The group uses long-read metagenomics, microbial genomics, and bioinformatics to study diverse biological systems. Projects may address the relationship between microbiomes and childhood undernutrition, fish mucosal microbial ecology, and microbial communities in the built envir...