PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Biology in Canada

Western University is advertising a two-year postdoctoral opportunity in computational approaches to health research. The position is associated with the university’s research environment in bioinformatics and computational health research. The postdoctoral researcher will contribute to research applying computational methods to health-related questions. The available announcement does not specify a particular project, dataset, methodology, laboratory, or named supervisor, so applicants should c...

The Olden Lab in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia is offering funded MSc and PhD opportunities in freshwater science in Vancouver, Canada. The positions focus on major freshwater research challenges, including freshwater conservation , climate change, sustainable water management, biodiversity, environmental DNA (eDNA), and machine learning. Students will be able to develop research connected to the conservation and management of freshwater...

The University of British Columbia’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is seeking a Research Associate to join the Cullis Laboratory at the UBC Vancouver campus. The research program focuses on lipid nanoparticles and their use in RNA therapeutics, drug delivery, nanomedicine, and innovative therapeutic development. The Research Associate will formulate lipid nanoparticles and optimize them for in vitro and in vivo systems. The work will include assay development, physicochemical ...

The Department of Cell & Systems Biology at the University of Toronto is seeking a Research Associate for a two-year limited-term appointment in the Moses Lab, led by Professor Alan Moses . The position is centered on computational biology and the study of how genetic regulatory networks are encoded in genome sequences and how they evolve. A major focus of the lab’s work is intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs) , including their role in protein regulation and sequence-to-function relat...

Research Associate opportunity at McGill University in the Ghoshal Lab within the Department of Civil Engineering. The project focuses on the characterization of nanomaterials and how they translocate and transform in plant tissues after foliar application, with an emphasis on evaluating the efficacy of nanomaterials against current industry-relevant treatments. The successful candidate will contribute to laboratory research on nanofertilizers in model crop plants and their commercial equivalent...

PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowship nomination at the University of Saskatchewan for a one-site or multi-site appointment within the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) network. The University of Saskatchewan PIMS site in Saskatoon is inviting applications to be nominated for a PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship sits within a broad mathematical and computational research network spanning institutions in western Canada and the northwestern United States, with opportunities t...

Simon Fraser University is inviting applications to its research-focused PhD programme in Linguistics for the Fall 2027 intake in Canada. The programme is designed for scholars pursuing advanced research on how language is structured, acquired, used and varied across communities. Potential research directions include language acquisition and cognition , linguistic diversity and variation, meaning and language use, phonetics and phonology, linguistic theory, and computational approaches to langua...

The University of Guelph’s microSCAPE Lab is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join a major program in environmental microbiology and waterborne pathogen surveillance . The project sits within the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Waterborne Pathogens and focuses on urgent challenges at the interface of environmental water systems, infectious disease, and antimicrobial resistance. The fellow will help shape research across several interconnected themes, including pathogen detection and infec...

The Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of Toronto is seeking a Research Associate to join the laboratory of Dr. Gabor G. Kovacs for a 12-month limited-term appointment. This position is centered on translational research into the molecular and biochemical mechanisms of neurodegenerative disease, with a particular focus on tauopathies and other proteinopathies. The project integrates human postmortem brain tissue, protein biochemistry, cellular disease models...