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 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...

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...

The microSCAPE Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow in Water Sensing to develop and apply expertise in water monitoring technologies across a range of sensing platforms. The research focus is intentionally open, with prior work spanning IoT sensor networks, spectrophotometric systems, hyperspectral imaging, low-cost electrochemical sensors, and passive sampling devices. This position sits within a large, internationally connected water research program focused on t...

A postdoctoral scholar position is available in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo. The project sits in statistics and biostatistics, with the successful candidate working with Professors Zelalem Negeri and Stefan Steiner. The research direction is centred on applied and methodological biostatistics, with proposed topics including structural equation modelling, meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies, and latent class modelling. The postdoc...

Joel Finbloom’s lab at the University of British Columbia is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work on probiotic delivery. The project sits at the interface of bioengineering, materials science, microbiology, synthetic biology, and molecular microbiology . Applicants should hold a PhD in microbiology, bioengineering, or a related field and possess relevant skills in synthetic biology and molecular microbiology. To apply, email a single PDF containing a cover letter of no more than two...