PhD Opportunities in Bioinformatics in Netherlands

This PhD project explores the biogeography of plant-associated fungi in the Galápagos Islands, focusing on how microbial communities shape the ecology and evolution of Scalesia species. The work investigates hidden fungal diversity in a classic island system where geographic isolation and environmental heterogeneity have driven adaptive radiation and endemic plant diversification. The project examines fungi associated with several Scalesia species across soils, roots, and leaves, with attention ...

This PhD project explores how baculoviruses manipulate caterpillar behaviour and how that manipulation is shaped by the broader viral context of the host. The work starts with comparing behavioural effects across closely and more distantly related baculoviruses and lepidopteran hosts, then moves to testing how the insect virome influences those outcomes. The project asks fundamental questions about parasite-host interactions and the concept of the extended phenotype, with a particular emphasis o...

This PhD project at RIVM focuses on developing and qualifying new human cell-based methodologies for studying respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection and immunity. The work is embedded in a new European consortium and aims to advance a cutting-edge virus neutralization model that can contribute to replacing traditional animal testing in vaccine and infection research. The project builds on a differentiated primary human epithelial transwell model with an air–liquid interface, including multi...

This PhD project is part of EDI-MSK , a European Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network focused on making musculoskeletal modelling more inclusive, personalised and clinically relevant. The project addresses an important challenge in musculoskeletal health: understanding how diversity, bias, and biological variation should be reflected in next-generation models of bone and related tissues. The specific doctoral project (DC6) aims to develop multiscale models of how chronic kidney diseas...

Wageningen University & Research in Wageningen, Netherlands, is offering a fully funded PhD position in insect virology within the NWO Vici project “Invisible influencers: How hidden virus infections shape insect life.” The project investigates how resident insect viromes affect immunity, fitness, life-history traits and responses to incoming virus infections. The PhD researcher will define viromes in several lepidopteran species, study vertical virus transmission and transgenerational immune pr...

Wageningen University & Research is offering a fully funded PhD position in insect virology in the Insect Virology group of the Laboratory of Virology, Wageningen, Netherlands. The project examines how covert virus infections in insect hosts influence baculovirus-induced manipulation of caterpillar behaviour, including hyperactivity and climbing before death. The PhD researcher will compare behavioural manipulation across related and distantly related baculoviruses and lepidopteran hosts, invest...

PhD opportunity in biogeography, mycology, microbial ecology, and plant-microbe interactions at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in Wageningen, the Netherlands, with collaboration through the Galapagos Microbiome Initiative at the University of San Francisco de Quito (USFQ). The project will investigate the hidden diversity and biogeographic patterns of fungi associated with Scalesia species in the Galápagos Islands, including arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) , yeasts, and fung...

PhD position at the University of Amsterdam on the cellular and molecular mechanisms driving traumatic brain injury (TBI)-associated dementia . The project focuses on repetitive mild traumatic brain injury (rmTBI), long-term neuroinflammation, hippocampal dysfunction, memory decline, neurogenesis, astrogliogenesis, microglia activation, and conserved transcriptional programs in mouse and human hippocampus. The position is embedded in a collaboration between the Fitzsimons lab at the Swammerdam I...

PhD positions in Immunogenetics at University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Netherlands. The Immunogenetics lab is recruiting two highly motivated PhD candidates to study how genetic, immunologic, and environmental factors shape immune-mediated disease, with a strong emphasis on celiac disease (CeD) . The project combines molecular biology , immunology , microbiology , bioinformatics , and Next Generation Sequencing to investigate disease onset and progression. Research will expand patient-de...