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

This research opportunity at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service in Kerrville, Texas focuses on the Asian longhorned tick ( Haemaphysalis longicornis ) and the poorly understood mechanisms of somatic sex differentiation in this invasive ectoparasite. The participant will work on a computational and molecular biology project aimed at integrating large datasets to predict gene interactions and uncover regulatory networks involved in sex determination. The project emp...

The Kelada Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is recruiting a postdoctoral research associate for a project on how the air pollutant ozone affects the lungs. The research will investigate why genetically different mice show different pulmonary responses to ozone exposure. The project will connect DNA sequence variation, chromatin and other epigenomic states, and gene expression changes elicited by ozone in vivo. The team will examine how these molecular features relate to hal...

A full-time postdoctoral fellowship is available in the Laboratory of Dr. Sayan Nandi at Howard University , in collaboration with Dr. Thomas Heinbockel and Dr. Byron Ford in the Department of Anatomy in Washington, DC. The project investigates the roles of neuroinflammation in brain injury , with a particular emphasis on microglia as the brain’s principal immune cells. The work examines how microglial activation can both support recovery by clearing dead neurons and exacerbate injury by releasi...

The Urban Evolutionary Entomology Laboratory at Virginia Tech is seeking a postdoctoral associate to study how pest insects establish, persist, adapt, and potentially go extinct in urban environments. The project sits at the intersection of evolutionary genetics, population genomics, and urban ecology, with an emphasis on understanding the genomic mechanisms that shape highly inbred populations living in anthropogenic landscapes. The research program includes themes such as the evolution of inse...

The Sparks Laboratory at the University of California, Irvine is seeking a postdoctoral scholar to study the molecular and epigenetic mechanisms that guide early human pluripotent stem cell differentiation. The project centers on neural crest and mesoderm lineage specification and aims to define the intermediate cell states and regulatory mechanisms that shape these early developmental decisions. The scholar will work with human embryonic stem cells and pluripotent stem cell differentiation syst...

Baylor College of Medicine is recruiting a full-time, onsite Postdoctoral Associate – Specialist in Cancer Genomics in Houston, Texas, within the Division of Pediatrics. The researcher will analyze and interpret large-scale genomic, transcriptomic, epigenomic, chromatin, and single-cell datasets from pediatric leukemia and lymphoma cohorts. Research activities include whole-genome sequencing (WGS), whole-transcriptome sequencing (WTS), DNA methylation, long-read sequencing, ATAC-seq, HiChIP, scR...

The University of Chicago’s Ovarian Cancer Laboratory is seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Section of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Biological Sciences Division. The research will investigate methyltransferase biology in ovarian cancer, focusing on how metabolic and epigenetic reprogramming in cancer-associated fibroblasts and tumor cells drives immune suppression and metastasis. The project combines cancer biology, tumor microenvironment research, immunology...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioinformatics - Gastroenterology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. This is a full-time postdoctoral fellowship focused on bioinformatics , genomic data analysis , and gastroenterology . The role is suited to candidates with strong training in biostatistics , R programming , and coding for large-scale genomic datasets, especially those interested in biomarker analysis. Experience in epigenetic biomarker development and va...

Washington University in St. Louis is advertising a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in Urologic Surgery at the Washington University Medical Campus in St. Louis, Missouri, United States . The postdoc will work in the laboratory of Dr. Kiran Mahajan (Mahajan lab), with research centered on prostate cancer , cancer immunology , immune regulation , and the tumor microenvironment . The lab also studies epigenetics including histone phosphorylation, methylation, and acetylation, and develops...