Wildlife Health Ghent is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to lead a project that will conduct groundbreaking research on early host-pathogen interactions between amphibians and chytrid fungi. Fire salamander ( Salamandra salamandra ) You'll be part of world-leading research on chytrid fungi in amphibians, while also benefiting from the support and expertise of other researchers within the group. WHG is a highly collaborative research group, dedicated to high-impact scientifi

Conservation and wildlife health are at the heart of our team’s mission, work that inspires dedication and curiosity. For Lars, that commitment began with his master’s thesis and now continues as he joins the team full-time, bringing his enthusiasm to ongoing projects. Lars is an evolutionary biologist who first got a taste of WHG’s work during his master’s thesis. He focused on discovering genetic markers using differential gene expression analyses. It was there that he disc

(c) Frank Pasmans PhD positions at Wildlife Health Ghent We are hiring several enthusiastic, driven, early career scientists whom we can offer a four year scholarship for conducting top notch PhD research at Wildlife Health Ghent. PhD students will study different aspects of disease ecology and epidemiology of infections with the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) in European salamanders and newts. We will address several key features of the disease, in