Synthetic Biology - 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 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…

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 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 Genetic engineering of bacteriophages to understand their biology and utilise in biotech applications

November 25, 2024

This project aims to develop a minimal phage genome that can be used for biotech applications and to elucidate the function of phage genes….

PhD opportunity to Understand the molecular interactions between bacteriophages and plasmids

November 5, 2024

Mobile Genetic Elements (MGEs), such as temperate bacteriophages and conjugative plasmids, which can transfer horizontally and vertically between bacterial cells, are known to play…

International Liberian Nanotechnology Laboratory

JRF opportunity for validation of an optofluidic device for detection of bacteria in food samples

September 28, 2024

Test the binding efficiency of phage proteins to bacteria present in food samples and optimise the capture of bacteria from food samples using magnetic…

PhD opportunity in Phage Transduction

September 10, 2024

Work on Phage Transduction powered by Diversity Generating Retroelements in an Experimental study and biotechnological tool development by Pasteur-Paris University. click here for the…

Post-doctoral opportunity to develop a novel Bacteriophage T4-based, stem cell-targeted gene therapy technology

September 1, 2024

Design a novel genetic “drug” platform to eradicate the virus from people living with HIV. We will program the unique large-capacity T4 phage nanoparticle…

PhD Opportunity in molecular mechanism of bacteria defense system and its synergy with CRISPR-Cas

August 13, 2024

This is a collaborative project between the Szczelkun lab (Bristol) and the Westra lab (Exeter). Work together with a collaborative team from the Universities…