PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Biotechnology in United States

PhD opening at the Digital Agriculture Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison The Digital Agriculture Lab is planning to recruit one PhD student to begin in Fall 2027. The position is hosted in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is supervised by Associate Professor Dr. Zhou Zhang. Research interests: machine learning, deep learning, remote sensing, precision agriculture, and digital agriculture. Ideal background: applicants with prior resear...

Postdoctoral Scholar / Postdoc Research Associate in Bee Ecology and Conservation in Farmland at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States. This opening is in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology (EEOB) and is linked to a USDA-NIFA-funded project on how reconstructed native habitat in agricultural landscapes affects managed and wild bees. The work focuses on bee ecology , pollinator conservation , entomology , ecology , landscape ecology , and agricultural systems ...

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is advertising a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the Moreno Lab led by Dr. Salvador Almagro-Moreno in the Department of Host-Microbe Interactions. The work is based in Memphis, Tennessee, United States . The project focuses on the emergence and evolution of bacterial pathogens, especially members of the Vibrionaceae , with particular emphasis on Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio vulnificus . The research sits at the intersection of microbiology , host-p...

NCATS/NIH is advertising a postdoctoral fellow position in the Stem Cell Translation Laboratory in Rockville, Maryland, United States . The project focuses on building the next generation of human-relevant tissue models , including scalable 3D human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC)-derived models and New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) for disease modeling, drug discovery, and therapeutic development. Applicants should have a strong research background and publication record in one or more of the foll...

Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington is advertising a Postdoctoral Fellow position in the Capone Lab within the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. The project is a CDC-funded five-year study focused on developing and applying integrated surveillance approaches for soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infection in the southeastern United States. The fellow will work at the intersection of environmental health microbiology , parasitology , epidemiology , and public h...

Postdoctoral Fellow/Biomaterials Scientist, Chemistry Zaleski Lab at Indiana University (Bloomington, United States). The Zaleski Lab in the Department of Chemistry is accepting applications for a postdoctoral research position focused on the design and synthesis of hybrid molecular and nanomaterial catalysts , with a strong biomaterials and cell-interaction component. The research environment is multidisciplinary and suitable for candidates interested in chemistry, materials, biology, and biomo...

Two research opportunities are mentioned in this X post: a fully funded PhD and a postdoctoral position . PhD position : The first opportunity is at the University of Wisconsin-Madison , USA, in Dr. Zac Freedman’s Lab within the Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences . The project focuses on plant-soil-microbe interactions for sustainable cannabis production . This is well suited to applicants interested in Agriculture , Biology , Environmental Science , and related quantitative work. The...

Postdoctoral Research Associate opportunity at the University of Utah in the Biomedical Micro-NanoSystems Lab, jointly connected with Mechanical Engineering and the John A. Moran Eye Center. The project focuses on corneal mechanobiology and organ-on-chip engineering , specifically curvature-driven mechanotransduction in keratoconus . The research combines cornea chip engineering, corneal cell biology, gene perturbation, and transcriptomics, with close collaboration with clinician-scientists at t...

Washington University in St. Louis is advertising a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the Kau Lab focused on allergy & immunology , microbiology , biochemistry , and animal models . The lab studies how the microbial ecology of the gut, airway, urinary tract, and other mucosal surfaces interacts with host factors to influence human health. The work is laboratory-based and includes mouse handling , microbial metagenomic sequencing (including whole-genome and RNA sequencing), basic microb...