BECOME A POSTDOC AT WILDLIFE HEALTH GHENT

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 scientific work in a friendly and supportive environment.

WHG is dedicated to advancing our understanding of pathogenesis of wildlife diseases in order to inform mitigation strategies. One of the research lines studies different aspects of disease ecology and epidemiology of infections with the chytrid fungi Bsal in European salamanders and newts.

We are hiring one enthusiastic, ambitious, early career postdoc whom we are offering a two year position at WHG in the framework of an ERC Advanced Grant “GLOSSI, Targeting skin glycosylation patterns to protect threatened salamanders from disease driven extinction”.

Applications welcome until 20th October. Find out more about the application here , or read about the GLOSSI project on their website.