Postdoc in Diet–Microbiome Interactions and Food Metagenome Mining - BRIGHT

Are you a computational microbiome scientist who wants to see your discoveries tested at the bench? Would you like to unlock a hidden dietary layer in thousands of gut metagenomes that already exist? Then this position offers you the chance to shape a new direction in diet–microbiome research.

This position is a part of BRIGHT's mission- oriented Microbial Food research programme (“referred to as Mission 2”), which aims to build an AI-powered framework for the rational design of microbial foods that meet four targets: consumer acceptance, health, sustainability and scalability.

The first phase focuses on two fungal chassis, Aspergillus and Yarrowia, characterizing more than 500 prototypes through multi-omics, sensory analysis, life-cycle assessment and safety testing. Predictive models for flavor, texture, nutrition and process scale-up are trained iteratively through active learning.

The scientific scope spans strain engineering, adaptive laboratory evolution, solid- and liquid-state fermentation, sensory and consumer research, and pre-clinical and clinical evaluation of safety, bioavailability and cardiometabolic health, in collaboration with national and international partners1 …