Researcher / Postdoctoral Fellow in Plant Metabolism and Metabolic Engineering at RIKEN RIKEN in Japan

Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) is recruiting a researcher / postdoctoral-equivalent fixed-term position in the Bio Research Group in Kyoto, Japan. The project focuses on bio-manufacturing of fibers , including the exploration and enhancement of enzymes that decompose polymer materials such as synthetic fibers, and the production of high-value-added green chemicals from the resulting decomposition products using microorganisms. This opportunity is closely connect...

Kyoto University is recruiting a Program-Specific Assistant Professor / Program-Specific Researcher (Postdoc) in the Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering . The position is tied to the COI-NEXT Project and the MEXT Data-Driven Materials Research and Development Project (DX) . Research themes include spinning of artificial silk (spider silk) , valorization of microbially derived proteins , protein production using plants , construction of a large-scale dat...

Waseda University’s Faculty of Human Sciences is recruiting a researcher / postdoc-equivalent for the Food and Life Science Laboratory led by Professor Taichi Hara . The lab focuses on basic and applied research to scientifically clarify the functional properties of food from a life science perspective, with research areas including molecular biology , cell biology , and food science . The position is based at Waseda University, Tokorozawa City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan . The role includes rese...

Postdoctoral Researcher position at Nagoya University (Graduate School of Science / Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, ITbM) in the Kinoshita Laboratory , working on plant physiology and stomatal control. The project is funded by JST’s ASPIRE program and focuses on the molecular mechanisms by which plants sense environmental signals such as light , CO2 , and drought to regulate stomatal opening and closing, growth, and stress tolerance. Research themes include analysis of compounds affec...

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...