PhD Studentship: Discovery of Disease Modulating Peptides from the Human Microbiome University of East Anglia in United Kingdom

The University of Birmingham in Birmingham, United Kingdom, is advertising a PhD studentship on machine learning for plasmid risk assessment and genomic surveillance, with a focus on respiratory disease and the microbiome. The project will analyse large-scale metagenomic sequencing data from patients across the respiratory disease severity spectrum, including people presenting with respiratory symptoms in emergency care and patients with severe pneumonia in intensive care. Researchers will chara...

PhD opportunity at the John Innes Centre within the Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership. This project, “From Defence to Antibiotic production: Uncovering New Roles for NLR Signalling in Multicellular Bacteria” , explores how nucleotide-binding and oligomerisation domain-like receptors (NLRs) function in Streptomyces beyond phage defence. The research aims to uncover broader roles in multicellular development , complex signalling networks , and the regulation of natura...

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom, focused on wheat rust resistance , soil microbial diversity , rhizosphere microbiology , and plant-microbe interactions . The project, led by Prof Diane Saunders , investigates how disruption of wheat susceptibility genes (S-genes) affects root exudation, the wheat rhizosphere microbiome, and sustainable deployment strategies for disease resistance. The research combines field and greenhouse experiments , metagenomics ,...

PhD Studentship at the University of Manchester in Microbiology and Chemical Biology focused on how Mycobacterium tuberculosis uses nutrients and how nutrient transport affects pathogen biology. This interdisciplinary project will combine microbiology, genetic, biochemical, and analytical methods to investigate nutrient utilisation in M. tuberculosis and to understand how disrupting nutrient transport changes survival and adaptation in the human host. The work is based at the Manchester Institut...

Washington University in St. Louis is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Molecular Microbiology for the Ting Zhang Lab in the Department of Molecular Microbiology at WashU Medicine. The position is based onsite at the Washington University Medical Campus in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. The postdoctoral fellow will investigate how bile metabolites induced by bacterial infection influence intestinal defense mechanisms and disease outcomes. The multidisciplinary research program...