Schwessinger

Australian National University is offering a postdoctoral research position within the Research School of Biology in the ANU College of Science and Medicine. The project is part of a National Health and Medical Research Council Ideas Grant focused on testing a delivery system for releasing therapeutics in the gut to help prevent urinary tract infections. The successful fellow will contribute to a biomedical research program that combines mouse experimentation with metagenomics and RNAseq analyses . The work sits at the intersection of infection biology, microbiome-related analysis, and translational therapeutics, with the aim of advancing understanding of how a gut-delivered system could support prevention of infection. The role is embedded in a research environment with strong biomedical science and biochemistry expertise, and the postdoctoral fellow will work closely with the project team to help deliver the milestones of the NHMRC-funded study. In addition to the research itself, the position includes an important mentoring component: training and supporting 2-3 Honours and/or PhD students and supervising undergraduate students on related projects. The advert identifies close collaboration with Dr Denisse Leyton, Dr Furlong and Professor Schwessinger, indicating a multi-supervisor research setting within the Research School of Biology. The broader college environment emphasises research-led education, international networks, and access to world-class facilities across the sciences.