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Katharina Kujala
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Environmental microbiologist, Senior researcher @Natural Resources Institute Finland. Research interests: peatlands, microbial ecology of arctic ecosystems and use of microbes in waste(water) treatment.
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if you are interested in a PhD in tuberculosis drug discovery, check out our opportunities 🧪🦠 #Tuberculosis lstm.ac/PhD
PhD opportunities
lstm.ac
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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📣 Open position: We are looking for a new #ScientificLead for the #SILVA database 🧬🖥️

You will be responsible for guiding the development of this important resource and for curating the SILVA taxonomy🌳and more!

👉 www.dsmz.de/dsmz/career/...

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#sciencejobs 🦠🧪 #career #taxonomy
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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🚨 Postdoc position in my lab!

A project on protein binder discovery for K6-linked #ubiquitin to investigate their role in infection is available.

📍 DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark
⏰ Deadline: 18 December 2025

Apply here: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I have a PhD position available on freshwater phage pollution, in terms of AMR impact and persistance of phage used in food and agriculture. #PhageSky #MicroSky www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
NERC RED-ALERT CDT: Bacteriophages as river pollutants: determining the impact of phage pollution, with focus on antimicrobial resistance. at Bangor University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - NERC RED-ALERT CDT: Bacteriophages as river pollutants: determining the impact of phage pollution, with focus on antimicrobial resistance. at Bangor University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Amazing opportunity to work with a great lab in Warwick! 🦠
PhD opportunity in my lab: exploring how commensals and pathogens build biofilm communities on endotracheal (ventilator) tubes. Microbial ecology, medical microbiology and fancy imaging! Co-supervised with the fabulous Saskia Bakker and Jeremy Webb warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... #MicroSky
Dr Freya Harrison
Dr Freya Harrison
warwick.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor.
Apps reviewed 12/15.

Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Assistant Professor
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or related fields.Candidates are expected to document expertise in their specialty by a record of postdoctoral training, peer reviewed publ...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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PhD studentship opportunity! Join us at St Andrews to study the factors controlling plasmid transmission in the gut. Competition-funded as part of the EASTBIO DTP, co-supervised with Dr Jaclyn Pearson. Please share & pass on to anyone interested! 🦠🧫 Deadline 15th December👇
www.findaphd.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Metagenomics colleagues!

I'm looking for studies where both Illumina and ONT sequencing were performed on the same samples from soil, human, ruminent, and other sample types for comparison. Bonus if those studies include PacBio data.

Please help and share!
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Any #archaea #archaeasky lab out there interested in having their Natrialba species sequenced on ONT r10 up to about 3Kx read depth for free? I'll send back annotated assembly, methylation data and raw signal files. I need at least one more species for a paper. Feel free to DM!

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November 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Re-boosting! The Dept. of Microbiology 🧫 at the University of Tennessee is hiring two 9-month faculty! Come join a vibrant and growing department located in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains! #microsky
Come join us in Knoxville!

The Dept. of Microbiology 🧫🦠 at the University of Tennessee is hiring 2 Assistant Professors (tenure track, 9-month appt.).

Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease: apply.interfolio.com/173153Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions: apply.interfolio.com/173345
November 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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We have 1 open PhD and 1 postdoctoral researcher position to work with terrestrial carbon cycling in abrupt #permafrost thaw features in the Arctic.

More information here:
www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

@cenunihh.bsky.social
Job advertisement
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October 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Help shape the future of microbiology in Europe. FEMS is conducting a survey to better understand the needs of microbiologists.

Your input will help identify key challenges & ensure the community’s voice is heard across Europe.

Complete it today and share with your network: 🔗 buff.ly/5eCowPX
October 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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PhD Opportunity: RNA Phages in the Wild 🦠 🔬
Ready to uncover the overlooked players in microbial ecology? Join me, Dr Dumont & Prof Wilson in a project that explores how RNA phages (viruses that infect bacteria) influence microbial ecosystems.
Email me for more information
tinyurl.com/wildRNAphage
Ecological significance of RNA phages in the wild at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Ecological significance of RNA phages in the wild at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com
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October 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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We're hiring a #postdoc with knowledge of the #microbiome, #microbiology, #bioinformatics, #computationalbiology to understand the role of the vaginal microbiome in women's health. #Baltimore #womenshealth
October 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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🔊 Fully-funded 4yr PhD studentship with the NWB DTP, working on novel regulators of bacterial nitrogen metabolism 🦠
Primary supervisor: @ariannebabina.bsky.social (University of Glasgow)
Co-supervisors: myself (Queen’s Belfast)+ Dónal Wall (Glasgow)
🌟 please share 🌟

www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - Arianne Babina
www.gla.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Interested in a tenure track position teaching and doing research with undergrads at a PUI? We are looking for a broadly-defined microbiologist who can teach Med Micro and Immunology. Apply at universityofscrantonjobs.com/postings/8308. Pls share widely to feeds (& on twitter if you still tweet)! 🦠
October 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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UMass Amherst Microbiology is hiring a tenure-track virologist. Come work with me! 🦠🧪
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
Details - Assistant Professor - Virology | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
careers.umass.edu
October 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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PhD opportunity to come and work in Glasgow, developing advanced tissue culture models to study Staphylococcus aureus colonisation and infection #microsky #PhD #DTPprogram

Enquiries from potential applicants are welcome.

www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Understanding Pathogens, from Molecules to Phenotypes - Justine Rudkin
www.gla.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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🧪🦠🖥️🧬🧫🔬 The Roadmap for equitable use of public microbiome data -including the Data Reuse Information Tag (DRI)- by the #DataReuseConsortium.
Must read if you use or produce microbiome data!

Kudos to the Data Reuse Core Team for their hard work!

doi.org/10.1038/s415...
September 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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I'm recruiting! I'm looking for a motivated postdoctoral scientist to join my new team at SCELSE in Singapore. The role will explore various aspects of how #eDNA is produced and utilised in #Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms.

#Microsky #phagesky #Science

ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...
Research Fellow (eDNA in Biofilms)
The Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) is a unique interdisciplinary Research Centre of Excellence (RCE), funded by National Research Foundation, Ministry of Educati...
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December 2, 2024 at 6:49 AM
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I will be hiring a PhD student and a postdoc for my ANR-funded project CECIL soon, starting in January 2026. If you have experience in (marine) microbiology and microbial OMICS, and are keen to understand how sea anemone microbiomes work, please reach out! 🧫 🧬

(p.s. we got tapas!)

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I am thrilled to announce that two exciting proposals were selected to be funded by the 2025 call for projects by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social – one major collaborative project (PRC) on which I will be co-investigator, and my Young Researcher (JCJC) project CECIL, which I will be leading.
September 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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My department at UTK is hiring! 🧪🧫 We are hiring two Assistant Professors, one in Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease and one in Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions! Come join our growing department of microbiologists. Knoxville is a great place to live!
September 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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#Microsky 🦠 🧪
September 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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🦠#microsky
The University of Utah’s Pathology Dept. & Huntsman Cancer Institute seek a tenure-track faculty (any level) with a passion for the microbiome–cancer interface. Apply by Nov 17, 2025.
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utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/187...

#ScienceJobs #Microbiome #CancerResearch @uofumandi.bsky.social @utah.edu
Microbiology & Immunology/HCI Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor
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September 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM