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The Wang Lab at the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences in Texas A&M University has openings for graduate student & postdoctoral associate positions starting in Summer or Fall 2026.

Dr. Hao-Xun Chang (Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, National Taiwan University) is recruiting multiple Postdoctoral Fellows, Research Assistants, and Ph.D. students to investigate plant–pathogen–microbiome interactions. The laboratory has a strong track record and sustained funding in the study of soilborne fungal pathogens, microbiomes, and the mechanisms of disease resistance in soybean, legumes, and model systems.

Sun Yat-sen University is seeking two Postdoctoral Associates with expertise in microbiology, bioinformatics, or biochemistry to investigate the role of microbes in nitrogen cycling processes that govern the ecological health of freshwater ecosystems.

The Neufeld lab at the University of Waterloo, Canada, is looking to fill two positions for MSc or PhD students investigating microbial ecology of wastewater and subsurface environments

Applications open for multiple openings for fully funded postdoctoral and PhD positions in the Luo Lab, Center for Computational Intelligence to Predict Health and Environmental Risks, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.

The Lewin Lab, Case Western Reserve University, USA, is looking for highly motivated postdoctoral fellow(s) interested in understanding the role of genomic diversity and/or functional heterogeneity in microbial communities

The Center for Advanced Microbiome Research and Innovation at the Institute for Genome Sciences in Baltimore, USA, is looking for two faculty positions in Microbiome

The Department of Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre CAS, Czech Republic has an open PhD position to study viruses of protists, with an emphasis on Giant Viruses and Polinton-like viruses, using high-throughput isolation methods, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and experimental approaches.

The Dept. of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), USA, invites applications from individuals studying fundamental questions in ecology & evolutionary biology using microbial systems.

The Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science at the University of Vienna, Austria, has an open PhD position exploring the bacterial adaptations to changing oxygen concentrations

Shanghai Ocean University, China, is looking for candidates for a 2-year postdoctoral position in the field of microbial oceanography. The successful candidate will employ cutting-edge multi-omic techniques (e.g., metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, metabolomics) to investigate microbial communities and their roles in marine ecosystems.

The Ku lab, at the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to join us in exploring the evolution, ecology, and biology of eukaryotic microbes with key ecological roles on Earth.