Project Researcher (Fixed-Term) in Genome Biology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tokyo University of Tokyo in Japan

Osaka University is recruiting a Specially Appointed Researcher for the Genome Analysis Laboratory at the Research Institute for Microbial Diseases in Osaka, Japan. The role is centered on genome biology , bioinformatics , and laboratory operations supporting next-generation sequencing services. The position is described as a researcher/postdoc-equivalent , part-time and fixed-term, with duties that include overall laboratory management, management of contracted analysis projects, cost calculati...

RIKEN’s Bioresource Research Center is recruiting a Researcher or Postdoctoral Fellow for the RIKEN ECL Research Unit, Microbial Genomics in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. The project focuses on microbial genomics , genome biology , and applied microbiology , especially bacteria with an unusual genome structure in which rRNA genes exist only in plasmids . The successful candidate will work on one of three research directions: searching public genome databases, experimentally verifying the biological s...

Logomix Co., Ltd., a Tokyo University of Science spin-off biotech venture, is recruiting a Laboratory Automation Scientist/Engineer for its Research and Development Department in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan . The role sits at the intersection of biology , biomedical engineering , computer science , and information technology , with a strong focus on automating wet-lab workflows for AI drug discovery and synthetic biology. The company’s core technology is Geno-Writing™ , a large-scale genome const...

Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany is advertising a Doctoral Researcher in Bioinformatics position in the professorship of Viral Ecology and Omics (VEO) . The project, titled “Quantifying quasispecies: Tool development and applications” , focuses on developing a graph structure to represent viral quasispecies and building tools to analyse them. The work connects sequence data with gene, function, and experimental/environmental metadata to identify mutational hotspots, link mutations t...

RIKEN’s Research Institute for Earth and Planetary Life Sciences (Suzuki Laboratory) is recruiting a researcher/postdoctoral equivalent for a project in genome biology , microbial evolution , and bioinformatics . The lab studies unknown microorganisms in the subsurface biosphere , combining fieldwork, microbial culture, physiological analysis, and omics approaches to understand microbial ecology, metabolic functions, early evolution of life, astrobiology, and extremophile genes. The advertised p...