PHAGE RESISTANCE - The phage jobs

Opportunity to work on ZombiePhage: how do bacterial viruses evolve into useful weapons?

December 15, 2024

Prophages are parasitic genetic elements that integrate within the genomes of bacterial hosts, bursting out with deadly effects in response to stress. Intriguingly, host bacteria…

Opportunity to work as a Senior Scientist, NextGen Sequencing (NGS) Assay Development for Crawford Lab

December 14, 2024

The lab of Jeremy Chase Crawford in the Department of Host-Microbe Interactions is seeking a highly skilled Sr. Scientist to develop and implement novel…

PhD in undertsanding how antibiotics and bacterial defence systems interact to limit antibiotic resistance transmission

December 12, 2024

This project will investigate how AMR plasmids, bacterial defenses, and antibiotic treatment interact to determine the overall spread of AMR plasmids. To do this,…

Oppotunity for PhD or Post-Doc in Bacteriophage Engineering at VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology

December 10, 2024

A major limitation of phage therapy is the typically very narrow host ranges of phages that are isolated from nature. This means that novel…

Phd Opportunity in Combined Therapeutic Efficacy of Phages and Probiotics to Control Avian Pathogenic Escherichia Coli

December 9, 2024

Colibacillosis is one of the most common and important diseases in poultry production often linked to extra-intestinal colonization of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC)….

PhD opportunity to work on Combinations of bacteriophages and cold plasma for biofilm biocontrol

December 4, 2024

The ongoing antimicrobial resistance crisis has incentivised research into alternative antibacterial and antibiofilm agents. One of them is cold plasma and plasma-activated water (PAW),…

PhD Opportunity in using experimental evolution to understand the impact of phage therapy on Clostridioides difficile

December 1, 2024

C. difficile is intrinsically resistant to many antibiotics and thrives in the disrupted gut environment created by antibiotic treatment. C. difficile is a spore-forming…

PhD Opportunity to work on efficacy of phage cocktails for eradicating MDR E.coli from the GI tract of colonised livestock species

November 29, 2024

Examples of common E. coli bacterial diseases include colibacillosis in chickens and swine caused by avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC) and enterotoxigenic E. coli…

PhD opportunity to work on impact of Hypermutability and Restriction-Modification by Campylobacter jejuni, on Bacteriophage Control Measures

November 26, 2024

Campylobacter jejuni is a major foodborne pathogen responsible for gastroenteritis every year. The major source of infections by this bacterial pathogen is contaminated poultry products. C….

Opportunity to work as a Postdoctoral Associate, Microbiology and Immunology

November 18, 2024

The lab’s research focuses on discovering new functions encoded among gut anaerobic bacteria and bacteriophages using high-throughput functional genomics. We are also interested in…