Milindu Liyanapathirana
@liyanapathir.bsky.social
Biomedical science professional with global lab experience in molecular biology, cancer biology, and neuroscience. Seeking PhD or research roles in basic or translational biomedical science.
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We have a PhD opportunity at the University of Reading focused on analysing Jupiter and Saturn auroral observations!
Title: Investigating Earth-like responses to the Solar Wind in Gas Giant Upper Atmospheres
Supervisor: me!
Full description/application portal:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Title: Investigating Earth-like responses to the Solar Wind in Gas Giant Upper Atmospheres
Supervisor: me!
Full description/application portal:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Crocus DLA
crocus-dla.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
We have a PhD opportunity at the University of Reading focused on analysing Jupiter and Saturn auroral observations!
Title: Investigating Earth-like responses to the Solar Wind in Gas Giant Upper Atmospheres
Supervisor: me!
Full description/application portal:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Title: Investigating Earth-like responses to the Solar Wind in Gas Giant Upper Atmospheres
Supervisor: me!
Full description/application portal:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Ph.D. Openings — Fall 2026!
If you are passionate about neuroscience, developmental biology, & working with fruit flies, our research group might be the perfect home for you.
You can apply using this link: forms.gle/Abt8gX7JhJaE...
See poster for more details.
Thanks
If you are passionate about neuroscience, developmental biology, & working with fruit flies, our research group might be the perfect home for you.
You can apply using this link: forms.gle/Abt8gX7JhJaE...
See poster for more details.
Thanks
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Ph.D. Openings — Fall 2026!
If you are passionate about neuroscience, developmental biology, & working with fruit flies, our research group might be the perfect home for you.
You can apply using this link: forms.gle/Abt8gX7JhJaE...
See poster for more details.
Thanks
If you are passionate about neuroscience, developmental biology, & working with fruit flies, our research group might be the perfect home for you.
You can apply using this link: forms.gle/Abt8gX7JhJaE...
See poster for more details.
Thanks
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University of Glasgow Library has a remarkably generous visiting research fellowship scheme - come hang out with me in Glasgow! Get funded! www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
University of Glasgow - MyGlasgow - Library - Research Fellows
www.gla.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
University of Glasgow Library has a remarkably generous visiting research fellowship scheme - come hang out with me in Glasgow! Get funded! www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
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I am advertising a funded PhD scholarship on my new project LivePlatforms: Livelihoods in the Platform Economy Ecosystem. More details here: www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancie...
PhD Scholarship - LivePlatforms
PhD Scholarship - LivePlatforms: Livelihoods in the Platform Economy Ecosystem project funded by the ERC Advanced Grant.
www.ucd.ie
November 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I am advertising a funded PhD scholarship on my new project LivePlatforms: Livelihoods in the Platform Economy Ecosystem. More details here: www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancie...
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We are hiring a postdoc! 🧪
▶️ Project: nucleotide metabolism (genomics & biochemistry)
▶️ Start date: spring 2026 (flexible)
▶️ More info and application: tinyurl.com/3kjrbb2x
Please share 🌏
@fbm-unil.bsky.social @dib-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @snsf.ch
▶️ Project: nucleotide metabolism (genomics & biochemistry)
▶️ Start date: spring 2026 (flexible)
▶️ More info and application: tinyurl.com/3kjrbb2x
Please share 🌏
@fbm-unil.bsky.social @dib-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @snsf.ch
Career Opportunities: Postdoctoral position in cellular metabolism (22584)
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November 20, 2025 at 6:26 AM
We are hiring a postdoc! 🧪
▶️ Project: nucleotide metabolism (genomics & biochemistry)
▶️ Start date: spring 2026 (flexible)
▶️ More info and application: tinyurl.com/3kjrbb2x
Please share 🌏
@fbm-unil.bsky.social @dib-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @snsf.ch
▶️ Project: nucleotide metabolism (genomics & biochemistry)
▶️ Start date: spring 2026 (flexible)
▶️ More info and application: tinyurl.com/3kjrbb2x
Please share 🌏
@fbm-unil.bsky.social @dib-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @snsf.ch
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I am very excited to be organizing a session for postdocs (with focus on those in the job market). Be on the lookout for info and registration! 🐟🧪
November 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I am very excited to be organizing a session for postdocs (with focus on those in the job market). Be on the lookout for info and registration! 🐟🧪
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Anyone looking for a Australia-based postdoc? Like animal behaviour / coding / birds? My fantastic collaborator, Iliana Medina, is advertising a position researching bird nests:
unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...
unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...
Research Fellow in Behaviour and Ecology
Role type: Full Time; Fixed Term for 2 years Faculty: Faculty of Science Department/ School: School of Biosciences Salary: Level A: $87,266 - $118,416 (PhD Entry Level - $110,319) plus 17% super Colla...
unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Anyone looking for a Australia-based postdoc? Like animal behaviour / coding / birds? My fantastic collaborator, Iliana Medina, is advertising a position researching bird nests:
unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...
unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...
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⏰ Postdoc position deadline approaching!
📅 Apply by 30 November 2025!
📅 Apply by 30 November 2025!
🔬 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴!
I’m recruiting a postdoctoral researcher (@mdc-berlin.bsky.social, Berlin 🇩🇪, @niccolozampieri.bsky.social lab) for my @dfg.de -funded project on somatosensory feedback and locomotor control. Please repost and DM me if interested!
#locomotion #proprioception #neuromechanics
I’m recruiting a postdoctoral researcher (@mdc-berlin.bsky.social, Berlin 🇩🇪, @niccolozampieri.bsky.social lab) for my @dfg.de -funded project on somatosensory feedback and locomotor control. Please repost and DM me if interested!
#locomotion #proprioception #neuromechanics
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
⏰ Postdoc position deadline approaching!
📅 Apply by 30 November 2025!
📅 Apply by 30 November 2025!
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🧬 PhD Position: Evolutionary & Comparative Genomics 🕷️
Join us at @uni-goettingen.de for a 3-year PhD (65% TV-L E13).
We will investigate the genomic & phenotypic impact of gene duplication across 233 arthropod genomes!
More infos 👇 and s.gwdg.de/eDrAAY
#Evolution #Genomics #Bioinformatics
Join us at @uni-goettingen.de for a 3-year PhD (65% TV-L E13).
We will investigate the genomic & phenotypic impact of gene duplication across 233 arthropod genomes!
More infos 👇 and s.gwdg.de/eDrAAY
#Evolution #Genomics #Bioinformatics
Posnien - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Webseiten der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
s.gwdg.de
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
🧬 PhD Position: Evolutionary & Comparative Genomics 🕷️
Join us at @uni-goettingen.de for a 3-year PhD (65% TV-L E13).
We will investigate the genomic & phenotypic impact of gene duplication across 233 arthropod genomes!
More infos 👇 and s.gwdg.de/eDrAAY
#Evolution #Genomics #Bioinformatics
Join us at @uni-goettingen.de for a 3-year PhD (65% TV-L E13).
We will investigate the genomic & phenotypic impact of gene duplication across 233 arthropod genomes!
More infos 👇 and s.gwdg.de/eDrAAY
#Evolution #Genomics #Bioinformatics
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🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI.
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI.
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
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Junior or mid-career group leaders working in neuroscience, apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network! We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars, committed to exchanging scientific ideas & contributing to improve Neuroscience in Europe. rb.gy/havqur
Application procedure – FKNE
rb.gy
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Junior or mid-career group leaders working in neuroscience, apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network! We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars, committed to exchanging scientific ideas & contributing to improve Neuroscience in Europe. rb.gy/havqur
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WE ARE RECRUITING PHD STUDENTS!!!
We have three(!) funded PhD studentships advertising presently. If any of these are of interest, please reach out! Thread below with links to more information on each project.
#Drosophila #Evolution #Immunity #SelfishGene #Aphids
Thread with links below 🧵 1/4
We have three(!) funded PhD studentships advertising presently. If any of these are of interest, please reach out! Thread below with links to more information on each project.
#Drosophila #Evolution #Immunity #SelfishGene #Aphids
Thread with links below 🧵 1/4
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
WE ARE RECRUITING PHD STUDENTS!!!
We have three(!) funded PhD studentships advertising presently. If any of these are of interest, please reach out! Thread below with links to more information on each project.
#Drosophila #Evolution #Immunity #SelfishGene #Aphids
Thread with links below 🧵 1/4
We have three(!) funded PhD studentships advertising presently. If any of these are of interest, please reach out! Thread below with links to more information on each project.
#Drosophila #Evolution #Immunity #SelfishGene #Aphids
Thread with links below 🧵 1/4
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🚨Job opportunity🚨
We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🚨Job opportunity🚨
We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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This week's #FluorescenceFriday, we'll be treated with one of the classical models of #devbio, the neural crest cells. Here is a beautiful video of neural crest cells with GFP-tagged focal adhesion kinase (🔵) and LifeAct-RFP (🟣) migrating on a Fibronectin matrix.
📹: Adam Shellard
📹: Adam Shellard
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This week's #FluorescenceFriday, we'll be treated with one of the classical models of #devbio, the neural crest cells. Here is a beautiful video of neural crest cells with GFP-tagged focal adhesion kinase (🔵) and LifeAct-RFP (🟣) migrating on a Fibronectin matrix.
📹: Adam Shellard
📹: Adam Shellard
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We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2
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Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
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We are hiring an immunologist. This is a hard money position. We have a very robust research infrastructure. Rowan is rapidly growing, with 20,000+ undergrads, two med schools, and a vet school. Contact me for more details. jobs.rowan.edu/en-us/job/50...
Rowan HR - Details - Open-Rank Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty, Immunology, Department of Biomedical Sciences (CMSRU)Job Postings | Human Resources | Rowan University
Rowan University is a Carnegie-classified national doctoral research institution dedicated to excellence in undergraduate and graduate education.
jobs.rowan.edu
November 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
We are hiring an immunologist. This is a hard money position. We have a very robust research infrastructure. Rowan is rapidly growing, with 20,000+ undergrads, two med schools, and a vet school. Contact me for more details. jobs.rowan.edu/en-us/job/50...
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We're hiring a new PhD student!
Open position: Sepsis-related brain damage and sleep.
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
#neuroskyence
Open position: Sepsis-related brain damage and sleep.
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
#neuroskyence
PhD position: Role of sleep in sepsis-related brain damage - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
www.fens.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
We're hiring a new PhD student!
Open position: Sepsis-related brain damage and sleep.
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
#neuroskyence
Open position: Sepsis-related brain damage and sleep.
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
#neuroskyence
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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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📢 Fully-funded 4-year MRC DiMeN PhD opportunity in our lab.
🔬 Exciting cancer cell biology collab with @maiblab.bsky.social & Liz Smythe @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social to use recombinant biosensors to image active KRAS in #pancreaticcancer
👇Apply by 4th Dec
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🔬 Exciting cancer cell biology collab with @maiblab.bsky.social & Liz Smythe @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social to use recombinant biosensors to image active KRAS in #pancreaticcancer
👇Apply by 4th Dec
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding the membrane recruitment of oncogenic KRAS in pancreatic cancer at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding the membrane recruitment of oncogenic KRAS in pancreatic cancer at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
📢 Fully-funded 4-year MRC DiMeN PhD opportunity in our lab.
🔬 Exciting cancer cell biology collab with @maiblab.bsky.social & Liz Smythe @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social to use recombinant biosensors to image active KRAS in #pancreaticcancer
👇Apply by 4th Dec
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🔬 Exciting cancer cell biology collab with @maiblab.bsky.social & Liz Smythe @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social to use recombinant biosensors to image active KRAS in #pancreaticcancer
👇Apply by 4th Dec
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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📣 Fully funded PhD position available in collaboration with @jasonkinglab.bsky.social in @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social
BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DLA Programme: How do cells coordinate nutrient scavenging pathways?
📅 Deadline: 7th January 2026
More info 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DLA Programme: How do cells coordinate nutrient scavenging pathways?
📅 Deadline: 7th January 2026
More info 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DLA Programme: How do cells coordinate nutrient scavenging pathways? at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DLA Programme: How do cells coordinate nutrient scavenging pathways? at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:17 AM
📣 Fully funded PhD position available in collaboration with @jasonkinglab.bsky.social in @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social
BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DLA Programme: How do cells coordinate nutrient scavenging pathways?
📅 Deadline: 7th January 2026
More info 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DLA Programme: How do cells coordinate nutrient scavenging pathways?
📅 Deadline: 7th January 2026
More info 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Funded PhD opportunity!
Funded PhD opportunity through the DiMeN DTP: studying HEV proteolysis. You’ll be primarily based in the Herod lab at Leeds, and work with us on the use of MS-based proteomics to study proteolysis! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Molecular Regulation of Proteolysis by Hepatitis E Virus as a Basis for Therapeutic Intervention at University of Leeds on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Molecular Regulation of Proteolysis by Hepatitis E Virus as a Basis for Therapeutic Intervention at University of Leeds, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Funded PhD opportunity!
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🔬 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴!
I’m recruiting a postdoctoral researcher (@mdc-berlin.bsky.social, Berlin 🇩🇪, @niccolozampieri.bsky.social lab) for my @dfg.de -funded project on somatosensory feedback and locomotor control. Please repost and DM me if interested!
#locomotion #proprioception #neuromechanics
I’m recruiting a postdoctoral researcher (@mdc-berlin.bsky.social, Berlin 🇩🇪, @niccolozampieri.bsky.social lab) for my @dfg.de -funded project on somatosensory feedback and locomotor control. Please repost and DM me if interested!
#locomotion #proprioception #neuromechanics
November 2, 2025 at 5:44 AM
🔬 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴!
I’m recruiting a postdoctoral researcher (@mdc-berlin.bsky.social, Berlin 🇩🇪, @niccolozampieri.bsky.social lab) for my @dfg.de -funded project on somatosensory feedback and locomotor control. Please repost and DM me if interested!
#locomotion #proprioception #neuromechanics
I’m recruiting a postdoctoral researcher (@mdc-berlin.bsky.social, Berlin 🇩🇪, @niccolozampieri.bsky.social lab) for my @dfg.de -funded project on somatosensory feedback and locomotor control. Please repost and DM me if interested!
#locomotion #proprioception #neuromechanics