biofilm - The phage jobs

Phage engineering to generate tailored therapeutics against resistant enterococci

May 14, 2025

Characterise the receptor binding proteins of phages targeting enterococci from isolated virulent phages of Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium. Investigate how phage receptor proteins…

Develop phage technology targeting foodborne E.coli in packed foods

May 10, 2025

Develop an innovative phage technology to control Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O157 safely and effectively in food packaging, complementing other control and surveillance strategies. To effectively control E. coli O157…

MD PhD Opportunity in Urinary Tract Infections with a Focus on phage Therapy

February 17, 2025

Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich has an academic translational research group for phage therapy which is led by the microbiologist/clinician team of Dr. Shawna McCallin,…

PhD or Post-Doc in Bacteriophage Engineering

February 11, 2025

The Loris lab has 25 years of expertise in molecular microbiology via the study of bacterial toxin-antitoxin systems and has recently shifted its interest to include…

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…

The University of Manchester, PhD in how do the interactions between temperate and lytic phages shape microbial communities?

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 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,…

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…