PhD Position in Microbial Ecophysiology and Antarctic Marine Sediment Microbiology University of Bremen in Germany

Research Assistant (f/m/d) – PhD student position at the University of Bremen , hosted by MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences , in the project “Unravelling the genetic repertoire and diversity of keystone microorganisms in Antarctic marine sediments by metagenomic data mining” . This PhD opening sits in the Microbial Ecophysiology Research Group and focuses on microbial ecology , metagenomics , bioinformatics , 16S amplicon sequencing , MAGs (metagenome-assembled genomes), and polar...

EMBL Heidelberg is offering an EMBO Practical Course titled “Microbial metagenomics: a 360º approach” for advanced PhD students and early postdoctoral researchers working in, or planning to enter, metagenomics research. The course focuses on hands-on training in microbial metagenomics , microbial ecology , environmental microbiology , genomics , and bioinformatics . Participants will cover experimental design, environmental sampling, DNA extraction from soil and water, metagenomic library constr...

Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany) is advertising a Doctoral Researcher in Viral Ecology within the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centre 1768 VirusREvolution: Decoding tools for virus research . The doctoral project asks: Do viruses exploit their quasispecies for host range evolution? and focuses on how host range and environmental conditions shape virus diversity and virus-host interactions in natural and experimentally manipulated microbial communities. The position is based at t...

❗ PhD opportunity at RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in Landau, Germany. This project focuses on hydrologic process understanding for chemical risk prediction in aquatic environments, with examples including pesticides and other pollutants. The work sits at the intersection of hydrology , environmental science , chemistry , and computer science , and explicitly welcomes applicants interested in natural language processing , large language models , machine learning , and large environmental...

GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel is advertising a Doctoral researcher (m/f/d) in Marine Data Science within the project “Spatial pattern mining and knowledge fusion to analyse, understand and predict occurrences of cold-water coral ecosystems” . The position is linked to the Helmholtz School for Marine Data Science (MarDATA) and is carried out in close collaboration between GEOMAR’s Paleo-Oceanography groups and the Data Science group at Kiel University. This PhD opportunity sits ...