Christian Diener
@cdiener.com
Lifelong relationship with microbes, now studying them for a living. Assistant Professor at MedUni Graz. Opinions are my own. He/him 🦠+💻=❤️
More socials at cdiener.com. Lab website at dienerlab.com.
More socials at cdiener.com. Lab website at dienerlab.com.
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How do we really assess dietary intake—and where is the field heading next?
This is the topic of the keynote lecture at #GMFH2026 by Lawrence David.
👉 Register now & join us https://www.gutmicrobiotaforhealth.com/porto-2026-fourteenth-edition/registration/
📍Porto | March 14–15
This is the topic of the keynote lecture at #GMFH2026 by Lawrence David.
👉 Register now & join us https://www.gutmicrobiotaforhealth.com/porto-2026-fourteenth-edition/registration/
📍Porto | March 14–15
January 25, 2026 at 10:01 AM
How do we really assess dietary intake—and where is the field heading next?
This is the topic of the keynote lecture at #GMFH2026 by Lawrence David.
👉 Register now & join us https://www.gutmicrobiotaforhealth.com/porto-2026-fourteenth-edition/registration/
📍Porto | March 14–15
This is the topic of the keynote lecture at #GMFH2026 by Lawrence David.
👉 Register now & join us https://www.gutmicrobiotaforhealth.com/porto-2026-fourteenth-edition/registration/
📍Porto | March 14–15
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We mourn the passing of Peer Bork, EMBO Member since 2000: https://www.embl.org/news/embl-announcements/in-remembrance-of-peer-bork/
In remembrance of Peer Bork | EMBL
EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.
www.embl.org
January 17, 2026 at 2:52 AM
We mourn the passing of Peer Bork, EMBO Member since 2000: https://www.embl.org/news/embl-announcements/in-remembrance-of-peer-bork/
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So happy to host Dr. Xiaoqian (Annie) Yu - soon starting her lab at University of Montreal! She used population genomics and large data analysis to group gut microbiome into ecological units based on sweep events (major revision at Nature)!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky #microbiomesky 🧪🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky #microbiomesky 🧪🦠
January 14, 2026 at 1:23 PM
So happy to host Dr. Xiaoqian (Annie) Yu - soon starting her lab at University of Montreal! She used population genomics and large data analysis to group gut microbiome into ecological units based on sweep events (major revision at Nature)!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky #microbiomesky 🧪🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky #microbiomesky 🧪🦠
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📢 We are hiring 📢 1st round of recruiting for our ERC project BacImmune-Decode! @erc.europa.eu
We are looking for a postdoc for wet-lab work on regulation of phage defence systems in bacteria using high-throughput microbial genetics. Check it out: lnkd.in/es7AE968
#Hiring #Postdoc #Microbiology
We are looking for a postdoc for wet-lab work on regulation of phage defence systems in bacteria using high-throughput microbial genetics. Check it out: lnkd.in/es7AE968
#Hiring #Postdoc #Microbiology
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January 14, 2026 at 8:55 AM
📢 We are hiring 📢 1st round of recruiting for our ERC project BacImmune-Decode! @erc.europa.eu
We are looking for a postdoc for wet-lab work on regulation of phage defence systems in bacteria using high-throughput microbial genetics. Check it out: lnkd.in/es7AE968
#Hiring #Postdoc #Microbiology
We are looking for a postdoc for wet-lab work on regulation of phage defence systems in bacteria using high-throughput microbial genetics. Check it out: lnkd.in/es7AE968
#Hiring #Postdoc #Microbiology
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Apply now: 1 Postdoc + 1 PhD position, Anderson-Wagner group @univie.ac.at Focus: gut microbial effects on hippocampus & memory 🧠🦠
#PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs #PhDposition
Postdoc Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... > Psychology
PhD Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... > CoBeNe
#PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs #PhDposition
Postdoc Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... > Psychology
PhD Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... > CoBeNe
January 8, 2026 at 6:08 AM
Apply now: 1 Postdoc + 1 PhD position, Anderson-Wagner group @univie.ac.at Focus: gut microbial effects on hippocampus & memory 🧠🦠
#PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs #PhDposition
Postdoc Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... > Psychology
PhD Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... > CoBeNe
#PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs #PhDposition
Postdoc Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... > Psychology
PhD Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... > CoBeNe
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📢 Our Q1 2026 Newsletter is live!
Get the latest project updates, community news, and insights from the NFDI4Microbiota ecosystem.
👉 Read here: nfdi4microbiota.de/newsroom/new...
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Get the latest project updates, community news, and insights from the NFDI4Microbiota ecosystem.
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January 6, 2026 at 2:59 PM
📢 Our Q1 2026 Newsletter is live!
Get the latest project updates, community news, and insights from the NFDI4Microbiota ecosystem.
👉 Read here: nfdi4microbiota.de/newsroom/new...
📬 Don’t miss future updates—subscribe to our mailing list: lists.nfdi.de/postorius/li...
Get the latest project updates, community news, and insights from the NFDI4Microbiota ecosystem.
👉 Read here: nfdi4microbiota.de/newsroom/new...
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Are you interested in #metaproteomics? We have a senior scientist position in my lab focused on metaproteomics, and xenobiotic- #microbiome -host interactions. Check it out.
jobs.quadram.ac.uk/Details.asp?...
jobs.quadram.ac.uk/Details.asp?...
Quadram Institute
jobs.quadram.ac.uk
January 6, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Are you interested in #metaproteomics? We have a senior scientist position in my lab focused on metaproteomics, and xenobiotic- #microbiome -host interactions. Check it out.
jobs.quadram.ac.uk/Details.asp?...
jobs.quadram.ac.uk/Details.asp?...
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I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group.
Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia
Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.
Deadline: 11.01.26
More info:
shorturl.at/f1TuF
Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia
Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.
Deadline: 11.01.26
More info:
shorturl.at/f1TuF
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group.
Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia
Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.
Deadline: 11.01.26
More info:
shorturl.at/f1TuF
Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia
Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.
Deadline: 11.01.26
More info:
shorturl.at/f1TuF
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📢 20 postdoctoral positions (full-time, 4 years) for outstanding female scientists 👩🔬 🔬 @univie.ac.at
The E-STEEM programme call opens January 7th, 2026 and closes March 3rd, 2026.
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
I participate as a host...
The E-STEEM programme call opens January 7th, 2026 and closes March 3rd, 2026.
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
I participate as a host...
careers.univie.ac.at
December 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
📢 20 postdoctoral positions (full-time, 4 years) for outstanding female scientists 👩🔬 🔬 @univie.ac.at
The E-STEEM programme call opens January 7th, 2026 and closes March 3rd, 2026.
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
I participate as a host...
The E-STEEM programme call opens January 7th, 2026 and closes March 3rd, 2026.
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
I participate as a host...
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Open postdoc position!🚨 Passionate about gut microbes 🦠 and the brain 🧠? We are an interdisciplinary group at the Faculty of Psychology & @cemess.bsky.social 🌍 @univie.ac.at and invite individuals who self-identify as female. Details: 4 years, full-time ➡️ careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
careers.univie.ac.at
December 16, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Open postdoc position!🚨 Passionate about gut microbes 🦠 and the brain 🧠? We are an interdisciplinary group at the Faculty of Psychology & @cemess.bsky.social 🌍 @univie.ac.at and invite individuals who self-identify as female. Details: 4 years, full-time ➡️ careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
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Up to 10 doctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology now open for application!
Start date September 2026.
More info here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs
Start date September 2026.
More info here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Up to 10 doctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology now open for application!
Start date September 2026.
More info here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs
Start date September 2026.
More info here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs
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Top #Citations 2025: 9️⃣🧪
@cdiener.com @gibbological.bsky.social et al ( @isbscience.org @medunigraz.at ) present a new method to estimate dietary intake from human stool by detecting food-derived DNA in faecal metagenomes.
@cdiener.com @gibbological.bsky.social et al ( @isbscience.org @medunigraz.at ) present a new method to estimate dietary intake from human stool by detecting food-derived DNA in faecal metagenomes.
Metagenomic estimation of dietary intake from human stool - Nature Metabolism
Diener et al. present a method that allows the estimation of dietary intake from human stool by detecting food-derived DNA in faecal metagenomes.
bit.ly
December 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Top #Citations 2025: 9️⃣🧪
@cdiener.com @gibbological.bsky.social et al ( @isbscience.org @medunigraz.at ) present a new method to estimate dietary intake from human stool by detecting food-derived DNA in faecal metagenomes.
@cdiener.com @gibbological.bsky.social et al ( @isbscience.org @medunigraz.at ) present a new method to estimate dietary intake from human stool by detecting food-derived DNA in faecal metagenomes.
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📢 New preprint on bioRxiv!
We introduce V4-EXT, a revised 16S rRNA V4 primer set that dramatically improves detection of Patescibacteria and other undersampled lineages
✅ 938 samples
✅ More novel ASVs
Primer choice matters 👀
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@ppjevac.bsky.social #HuifengHu
We introduce V4-EXT, a revised 16S rRNA V4 primer set that dramatically improves detection of Patescibacteria and other undersampled lineages
✅ 938 samples
✅ More novel ASVs
Primer choice matters 👀
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@ppjevac.bsky.social #HuifengHu
November 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
📢 New preprint on bioRxiv!
We introduce V4-EXT, a revised 16S rRNA V4 primer set that dramatically improves detection of Patescibacteria and other undersampled lineages
✅ 938 samples
✅ More novel ASVs
Primer choice matters 👀
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@ppjevac.bsky.social #HuifengHu
We introduce V4-EXT, a revised 16S rRNA V4 primer set that dramatically improves detection of Patescibacteria and other undersampled lineages
✅ 938 samples
✅ More novel ASVs
Primer choice matters 👀
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@ppjevac.bsky.social #HuifengHu
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🧑💻 Need help with #nfcore #nextflow #bioinformatics pipelines, running or developing?
We are merging the 🌍 Eur/M.E./Afr and the 🌎 Americas weekly helpdesk.
Please join our host @vagkaratzas.bsky.social, nf-core maintainer, this Thursday at 14:30 CET | 08:30 ET on play.workadventu.re/@/nf-core/nf...
We are merging the 🌍 Eur/M.E./Afr and the 🌎 Americas weekly helpdesk.
Please join our host @vagkaratzas.bsky.social, nf-core maintainer, this Thursday at 14:30 CET | 08:30 ET on play.workadventu.re/@/nf-core/nf...
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
🧑💻 Need help with #nfcore #nextflow #bioinformatics pipelines, running or developing?
We are merging the 🌍 Eur/M.E./Afr and the 🌎 Americas weekly helpdesk.
Please join our host @vagkaratzas.bsky.social, nf-core maintainer, this Thursday at 14:30 CET | 08:30 ET on play.workadventu.re/@/nf-core/nf...
We are merging the 🌍 Eur/M.E./Afr and the 🌎 Americas weekly helpdesk.
Please join our host @vagkaratzas.bsky.social, nf-core maintainer, this Thursday at 14:30 CET | 08:30 ET on play.workadventu.re/@/nf-core/nf...
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Come be my colleague at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. We're hiring an assistant professor in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling. 🌊
Career Opportunities at the University of Hawai'i | University of Hawai'i
www.schooljobs.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Come be my colleague at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. We're hiring an assistant professor in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling. 🌊
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📣 Join us for the 2025 @isbscience.org Virtual Microbiome Symposium, focused on "Gut Microbial Metabolites and Their Impact on Host Systems".
co-director - @flash-point.bsky.social 🦠💥
It's free, & we have an amazing line-up of speakers!
Dec. 12th. Please share!
isbscience.org/2025-isb-vir...
co-director - @flash-point.bsky.social 🦠💥
It's free, & we have an amazing line-up of speakers!
Dec. 12th. Please share!
isbscience.org/2025-isb-vir...
2025 ISB Virtual Microbiome Symposium - Institute for Systems Biology (ISB)
Symposium Schedule All presentation times are shown in Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00 / UTC -07:00) Time Talk / Session 9:00 Welcoming remarks by Sid Venkatesh Session One: Neural Effects
isbscience.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
📣 Join us for the 2025 @isbscience.org Virtual Microbiome Symposium, focused on "Gut Microbial Metabolites and Their Impact on Host Systems".
co-director - @flash-point.bsky.social 🦠💥
It's free, & we have an amazing line-up of speakers!
Dec. 12th. Please share!
isbscience.org/2025-isb-vir...
co-director - @flash-point.bsky.social 🦠💥
It's free, & we have an amazing line-up of speakers!
Dec. 12th. Please share!
isbscience.org/2025-isb-vir...
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Dr. Nick Quinn-Bohmann will present a Keynote Talk at this year's Future of the Microbiome Winter Summit (Nov. 18-20).
He'll talk about his work on using community-scale metabolic modeling to design personalized, microbiome-informed interventions. futureofmicrobiome.com/winter-summi...
He'll talk about his work on using community-scale metabolic modeling to design personalized, microbiome-informed interventions. futureofmicrobiome.com/winter-summi...
Winter Summit 2025 | The Future of Microbiome
Future of the Microbiome2025 Winter Summit Join us November 18-20, 2025! REGISTER NOW The Future of the Microbiome Winter Summit explores what’s next for the microbiome industry, bringing together bri...
futureofmicrobiome.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Dr. Nick Quinn-Bohmann will present a Keynote Talk at this year's Future of the Microbiome Winter Summit (Nov. 18-20).
He'll talk about his work on using community-scale metabolic modeling to design personalized, microbiome-informed interventions. futureofmicrobiome.com/winter-summi...
He'll talk about his work on using community-scale metabolic modeling to design personalized, microbiome-informed interventions. futureofmicrobiome.com/winter-summi...
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Less than a week remains to apply to this exciting PhD position and join my team at Osnabrück University 👇
#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
November 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Less than a week remains to apply to this exciting PhD position and join my team at Osnabrück University 👇
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🧬 🦠 🏙️
Urban vs rural lifestyles create dramatically different gut microbiomes. But how do these different gut microbiomes affect the host?
Excited to share our new paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Urban vs rural lifestyles create dramatically different gut microbiomes. But how do these different gut microbiomes affect the host?
Excited to share our new paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
🧬 🦠 🏙️
Urban vs rural lifestyles create dramatically different gut microbiomes. But how do these different gut microbiomes affect the host?
Excited to share our new paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Urban vs rural lifestyles create dramatically different gut microbiomes. But how do these different gut microbiomes affect the host?
Excited to share our new paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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LorBin: efficient binning of long-read metagenomes by multiscale adaptive clustering and evaluation. #LongRead #Metagenomics #MAGs #BinningMethods #UnsupervisedBinning @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
LorBin: efficient binning of long-read metagenomes by multiscale adaptive clustering and evaluation. #LongRead #Metagenomics #MAGs #BinningMethods #UnsupervisedBinning @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Great to see this finally published!
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
Abstract. Metagenomic sequencing enables the in-depth study of microbes and their functions in humans, animals, and the environment. While sequencing data
academic.oup.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Great to see this finally published!
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
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Can you take a quarter cup of composite sewage, simply ask ‘what’s in there?’, and find out all of the pathogens circulating in that community?
That is the question we asked in our latest pre-print.
Turns out you can.
1/
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
That is the question we asked in our latest pre-print.
Turns out you can.
1/
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Untargeted longitudinal ultra deep metagenomic sequencing of wastewater provides a comprehensive readout of expected and unexpected viral pathogens
Wastewater surveillance has become a powerful tool to monitor circulating viruses at a community level. Currently, most wastewater surveillance efforts use target-based approaches such as quantitative...
www.medrxiv.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Can you take a quarter cup of composite sewage, simply ask ‘what’s in there?’, and find out all of the pathogens circulating in that community?
That is the question we asked in our latest pre-print.
Turns out you can.
1/
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
That is the question we asked in our latest pre-print.
Turns out you can.
1/
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Looks interesting 👀: Distinguishing diet- and microbe-derived metabolites in the human gut microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Distinguishing diet- and microbe-derived metabolites in the human gut - Microbiome
Background Human gut microbes metabolize food and host secretions, consuming and producing small molecules that are important to health and homeostasis. Here, we present an atlas of diet- and microbio...
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Looks interesting 👀: Distinguishing diet- and microbe-derived metabolites in the human gut microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Come and do a PhD with me! Are you looking for a PhD project at the intersection of #microbiome and #food science? This project, in collaboration with ADM milling, will explore novel microbiome targeted food ingredients
🎓 #PhDPosition !
🍽️ The impact of innovative food ingredients on the human gut microbiome and health with Dr Fred Warren @starchlab.bsky.social
📅Apply by 2 December
➡️ buff.ly/k1KEcfL
🍽️ The impact of innovative food ingredients on the human gut microbiome and health with Dr Fred Warren @starchlab.bsky.social
📅Apply by 2 December
➡️ buff.ly/k1KEcfL
October 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Come and do a PhD with me! Are you looking for a PhD project at the intersection of #microbiome and #food science? This project, in collaboration with ADM milling, will explore novel microbiome targeted food ingredients
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Thinking about a postdoc in microbiome science?
Our lab at the MPI for Biology (Tübingen) builds on the culture I established at Cornell: collaborative, creative, and internationally diverse. Postdocs lead their own projects with secure funding. Join us!
#PostdocJobs #HostMicrobe #AcademicJobs
Our lab at the MPI for Biology (Tübingen) builds on the culture I established at Cornell: collaborative, creative, and internationally diverse. Postdocs lead their own projects with secure funding. Join us!
#PostdocJobs #HostMicrobe #AcademicJobs
October 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Thinking about a postdoc in microbiome science?
Our lab at the MPI for Biology (Tübingen) builds on the culture I established at Cornell: collaborative, creative, and internationally diverse. Postdocs lead their own projects with secure funding. Join us!
#PostdocJobs #HostMicrobe #AcademicJobs
Our lab at the MPI for Biology (Tübingen) builds on the culture I established at Cornell: collaborative, creative, and internationally diverse. Postdocs lead their own projects with secure funding. Join us!
#PostdocJobs #HostMicrobe #AcademicJobs