PhD - The phage jobs

PhD Opportunity in Characterisation of the Biological Features of Phages through Large-Scale Analyses

December 18, 2024

The project represents an ambitious attempt to delve into this universe of uncharacterised biodiversity through a series of sequential investigations. The first step will…

Opportunity to work on developing biosensors to detect phage replication

December 17, 2024

When phages kill bacteria, they cause changes in the bacterial membrane that can be detected using electrical impedance spectroscopy. This project aims to develop…

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…

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 Generative AI approaches for synthetic phage genome engineering

December 3, 2024

The emergence of powerful artificial intelligence (AI) tools, now supports complex prediction and generation tasks at molecular, systems, and genomic levels. In this project,…

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…