PhD position: Phages in the infant gut: good, bad or neutral?

We are recruiting a student at the Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB) on the role phages play in the establishment of the gut microbiota, particularly focused on beneficial bifidobacteria. The student will join the team of Dr Evelien Adriaenssens, an expert in phage biology, and that of Dr Lindsay Hall, an expert in the infant gut microbiome. In this project, the student will use established methods to discover new bacteriophages against bifidobacteria and investigate their effects on natural bacterial communities in the infant gut through model systems and next-generation sequencing.