PhD Opportunities in Genomics

Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health is inviting applications for a Fall 2027 PhD in Biostatistics. The program offers advanced training in biostatistics and statistical methodology within a public-health research environment. Students can pursue research across artificial intelligence and machine learning, epidemiology and infectious disease modelling, Bayesian statistics, causal inference, spatial statistics, longitudinal data analysis, statistical genetics and genomics, clinical...

This internship/fellowship is based at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command - Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience , within the Integrated Systems Biology Branch . The project is centered on integrative biology approaches to military-relevant health, with a focus on understanding the etiology of health problems and developing solutions that support performance, resilience, and readiness. Participants will work under a men...

Google DeepMind’s Genomics team in London is hiring a Student Researcher for 2027 through the Student Researcher Program. The opportunity is designed for PhD students interested in applying advanced machine-learning methods to genomic models. The research focus combines machine learning, post-training and reinforcement learning with genomics. The successful researcher will contribute to projects exploring how these methods can be used to develop or improve models for genomic applications, within...

This fully funded PhD project explores how life-history strategies evolve in freshwater fishes, focusing on the interplay between ecological pressures, evolutionary history, and ancestry. The student will work within a broader comparative framework on traits linked to reproductive biology, reproductive investment, sexual selection, and adaptation to challenging environmental conditions. The project is centered at the Reichard Lab at the Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences ...

This PhD project is part of NTNU’s interdisciplinary research effort on preparedness and response to antimicrobial resistance, described as “the silent pandemic.” The advertised PhD candidate will join one of four closely coordinated projects and work within a collaborative environment that links molecular and clinical research with broader interdisciplinary expertise. The project focuses on discovering and characterizing new antimicrobial peptides derived from human plasma. These peptides may a...

This PhD position is part of NTNU’s interdisciplinary research project “Preparedness and Response to AMR, the silent pandemic” , where closely coordinated doctoral projects work together across molecular medicine, biotechnology, and social science. The advertised project focuses on new antimicrobial peptides derived from human plasma and their potential as single agents or in combination with antibiotics against antimicrobial-resistant bacteria. The doctoral candidate will help identify and char...

Fully funded PhD or master's opportunity in food microbiology and safety at North Carolina State University, USA, under the supervision of Dr. Mairui Gao in the Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences. The research focuses on foodborne pathogen evolution, microbial risk assessment, and novel biocontrol strategies. Students may use genomics, microbiome analysis, and machine learning to investigate food safety challenges and develop innovative approaches to pathogen control. Appli...

The International Max Planck Research School on Interdisciplinary Plant Biology is offering seven fully funded PhD positions in computational and experimental plant sciences in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research and the University of Cologne in Germany. The graduate school investigates fundamental biological processes in plants and develops knowledge and materials that can support innovative plant breeding. Research projects span reproductive development, org...

PhD position in Bioinformatics and Machine Learning for Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance Diagnostics at University of Inland Norway (Universitetet i Innlandet), Norway. This doctoral project sits at the interface of bioinformatics, machine learning, and medical diagnostics, with a focus on infection and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The topic is well suited to applicants interested in computational biology, data-driven diagnostic development, and the analysis of biological and clinical d...