Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Pathology, Virology, Sequencing, and Microbiome/Virome Data Analysis The University of British Columbia in Canada

Funded MSc/PhD opportunity at the University of Winnipeg , Department of Biology, focused on hunting giant viruses in Lake Winnipeg and studying the aquatic virome associated with algal blooms and their infecting viruses. The project combines fieldwork , molecular biology , and bioinformatics/computational analysis . Students will board a research vessel about three times per year to collect samples from Lake Winnipeg, then help map an entire aquatic viral community that is not widely known. Thi...

Université Laval’s Sustainable Plant Protection Laboratory (EdeLab) is advertising 3 PhD positions in sustainable plant protection . The projects sit at the intersection of plant biology , plant pathology , entomology , genomics , microbiome , and bioinformatics , within a multidisciplinary, bilingual, and diversity-driven team of 20+ members from 12 countries. Project 1: Evolution of ankyrin-repeat effectors in gall-forming plasmodiophorids. This project investigates effector expansion, repeat ...

MSc student opportunity in microbiology , zoonotic diseases , and bioinformatics with a research team led by Rhiannon Wallace at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada . The project focuses on sequencing, metagenomics, genomics, diagnostics, and applied research at the intersection of human and animal health. The position is based in Agassiz, British Columbia, Canada , and the post says the student would join the lab in early 2027 . This is a graduate student opening rather than a scholarship announce...

Funded MSc and PhD opportunity in the University of Florida lab of Abolfazl Hajihassani at the Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center in Davie, South Florida, USA. The project focuses on biological control for nematode management in vegetable crops and subtropical fruit crops . Research interests include isolation, culturing, and mass production of microbial biocontrol agents, plus molecular identification and characterization using PCR , qPCR , sequencing, whole-genome sequencing , SNP a...

3 PhD positions are being advertised at EdeLab, Université Laval, Canada, in research spanning plant pathology, entomology, genomics, and climate biology. The topics mentioned include clubroot pathogens, Arctic insect microbiomes, and leafhopper effectors. This suggests a strong interdisciplinary training environment at the interface of plant science, insect biology, microbial ecology, and genomics. Eligibility note: a Master's degree is required. No deadline, funding details, or application lin...