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Gemma Atkinson's lab is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher, to study antibiotic resistance and phages using a combination of wet lab and computational approaches. The position, funded by the Swedish Research Council, starts in 2025.

Gemma Atkinson's lab is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher, to study antibiotic resistance and phages using a combination of wet lab and computational approaches. The position, funded by the Swedish Research Council, starts in 2025.

Jonas Fernbach (ETH Zurich) and colleagues used the PhagePromoter algorithm to identify intergenic loci in the S. aureus phage K genome for targeted payload integration, and validated their approach by engineering recombinant phages with bi

Khalimat Murtazalieva (European Bioinformatics Institute) and colleagues have discovered 145 phage anti-defence systems (ADSs) that counteract 27 of the 152 known bacterial defence families. They discuss high-throughput approaches which are

The Atkinson lab at Lund University (Lund, Sweden) is hiring a doctoral student in computational biology of infection to study prophages in E. coli genomes and annotate their genes using high-throughput AlphaFold.

The Laboratory of Bacteriology Research at the University of Ghent, Belgium, is hiring a postdoc to computationally understand and model the efficiency of the Diversity Generating Retroelements system used by phages to diversify their prote

The Computational Phage Genomics Programme 2023 at the University of Copenhagen runs in-person Oct 27 - Nov 3, offering hands-on experience analysing phage genome sequencing data, from raw NGS reads to a fully assembled and annotated phage

The Jiang lab at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking postdocs in the area of bioinformatics and data science. The goal of the lab is to develop computational tools and approaches that

The University of Copenhagen is hiring a Senior Researcher in Computational Biodiscovery to work on phage informatics.

The NIH's National Library of Medicine is hiring a postdoctoral fellow in the area of bioinformatics and data science. Several projects are currently available including 1) identifying and characterizing microbial gene clusters of interest;

The University of Exeter is offering a funded PhD studentship on 'Multi-layered bacterial genome defences: linking molecular mechanisms to bacteria-MGE conflicts in single cells, populations, and communities'.

Anders Nørgaard Sørensen (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues published a new paper in Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal showing subtypes of tail spike proteins predicts the host range of Ackermannviridae phages.

Christopher Turkington (University of California, Merced) and colleagues published a preprint on hafeZ, a tool able to identify ‘active’ prophages within bacterial genomes through genomic read mapping. They've applied hafeZ to publicly avai

A post-doc position is available in the Parent Lab (Michigan State University) to work on mechanisms of phage attachment to enteric pathogens. Genetics, biochemistry, and computational approaches as well as single-particle cryo-EM will be c

Amjad Khan (Western University, Canada) and colleagues published a paper in PLOS Computational Biology showing that evolution along the parasitism-mutualism continuum determines the genetic repertoire of prophages.

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s Joint Genome Institute Division has an opening for a computational biologist postdoctoral scholar to lead comparative analyses of multi ‘omics datasets to address questions regarding microbial and viral geno

Catherine Mageeney (Sandia National Labs, Livermore, California) and colleagues published a new paper in MSystems on their development of a new technology platform that enables on-demand phage production through computationally identifying

Dr. Joshua Weitz, Atlanta, Georgia The postdoc will lead efforts to develop analytical and computational models of virus-microbe interactions with an emphasis on viral control of microbial community dynamics. Requirements include: (1) PhD i

Dr. Joshua Weitz, Atlanta, Georgia The postdoc will lead efforts to develop analytical and computational models of virus-microbe interactions with an emphasis on viral control of microbial community dynamics. Requirements include: (1) PhD i

Dr. Ross Fitzgerald A post-doctoral fellowship is available in the University of Edinburgh with Professor J. Ross Fitzgerald and colleagues. The 3 year-funded project involves a grouping of microbiologists, bioinformaticians and veterinary