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Greensboro, North Carolina, USA USD 49,400 - 50,400 per year Experience not specifiedOn-site

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NC A&T State University's Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies has a second postdoctoral scholar post on bioactive food components for disease prevention. The scholar will analyse food bioactives and metabolites by mass spectrometry and study their interaction with the gut microbiome; this post also asks for microbiology knowledge.

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Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil R$ 12,570.00 per month (FAPESP postdoctoral fellowship rate) Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Bacterial Genomics at FCFRP-USP in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil, offers a FAPESP-funded postdoctoral fellowship. The fellow will study the genomic diversity, virulence and adaptation of Brazilian Salmonella enterica strains from animal production that cause human infections, within a One Health framework.

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Greensboro, North Carolina, USA USD 50,000 - 55,000 per year Experience not specifiedOn-site

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NC A&T State University's Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies is hiring a postdoctoral research associate to study bioactive food components for disease prevention. The work uses mass-spectrometry metabolomics and looks at interactions between dietary compounds and the gut microbiome.

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Greensboro, North Carolina, USA USD 50,000 - 55,000 per year Experience not specifiedOn-site

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NC A&T State University's Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies is hiring a postdoctoral scholar in food science and engineering. The role focuses on food-seed germination and characterisation of germinated seeds, microfluidization, and analysis of dynamic microbial communities in food systems.

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Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France CIFRE doctoral contract (amount not stated in the notice) Experience not specifiedOn-site

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An industrial (CIFRE) PhD in France will study clean-in-place (CIP) of a UHT milk processing line as a whole system. The doctoral student will link CIP cycle parameters, cleaning signals, line geometry, deposit type and surface microbiology to hygiene and environmental performance, with the Biodymia lab (Lyon 1 / ISARA) and the PAPC team of UMR PAM in Dijon.

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Normal (Huntsville), Alabama, USA USD 53,700 - 64,400 per year 0–1 yearsOn-site

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Alabama A&M University's Department of Food and Animal Sciences is hiring a 12-month postdoctoral associate on a USDA-NIFA Evans-Allen project. The postdoc will study how ATP-citrate lyase controls lipid biosynthesis in the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica using genome engineering, enzymology and lipid analysis.

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Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil R$ 12,570.00 per month (FAPESP postdoctoral fellowship rate) Experience not specifiedOn-site

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ESALQ-USP in Piracicaba, Brazil, offers a FAPESP postdoctoral fellowship on geographical indications (GI) for agri-food products. The fellow will study territorial sustainability and consumer behaviour, including consumer studies, sensory analysis and eye tracking of GI products.

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Greensboro, North Carolina, USA USD 50,000 - 55,000 per year Experience not specifiedOn-site

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NC A&T State University's Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies is hiring a postdoctoral scholar for a USDA-NIFA Evans-Allen project. The research looks at how dietary polyphenols modulate gut dysbiosis linked to peanut sensitivity, combining polyphenol chemistry, microbiome, immunology and metabolomics work.

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Nashville, Tennessee, USA Pay not disclosed Experience not specifiedOn-site

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Tennessee State University's Department of Food and Animal Sciences in Nashville is hiring a research postdoctoral fellow for a USDA-funded project. The work covers food ingredient science, dietary fibre and the gut microbiome, including in vitro and in vivo testing of the functional properties of food ingredients.

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St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom UKRI standard stipend plus UK tuition fees (university cover Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The University of St Andrews School of Biology offers a 4-year competition-funded EASTBIO BBSRC CASE PhD with industrial partner Planetfix. The student will study how enzymes break down collagen-rich proteins, how enzyme-substrate interactions shape the peptides produced, and better ways to characterise protein hydrolysis and peptide composition.

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Elvas, Portugal EUR 1,090.98 per month Experience not specifiedOn-site

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Portugal's National Institute for Agricultural and Veterinary Research (INIAV) offers a research scholarship at its Elvas Innovation Hub under the Interreg ATIDRAI-AGRO agri-food project. The fellow will support breeding, conservation and valorisation of native olive varieties and help optimise processing methods for traditional products, mainly olive oil.

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Vila Real, Portugal EUR 1,309.64 per month (FCT scale) Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) offers a research grant in its Wine Microbiology and Biotechnology Lab in Vila Real for the SABBIN project on bioeconomy and biocontrol in the northern Portuguese wine industry. The fellow will map the regional incidence of the spoilage yeast Brettanomyces, develop tools to detect it and develop biological preservation formulations.

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