The Ideker Laboratory is located at the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford as well as the Division of Human Genetics and Precision Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine. We are a vibrant research team of 30-40 staff, postdocs, and graduate students known for a dynamic and collaborative environment. We perform bioinformatics research coupled with wet-lab investigations, working in the areas of network biology, data-driven hierarchical modeling, and machine learning applied to biomedicine. We also support multiple open-source software projects, some with 100K+ users.
The Ideker Lab is in open recruitment for exceptional graduate students, postdocs, and senior research scientists to work across multiple laboratory projects. Prior to submitting an inquiry on available research positions, be sure to review our Research Areas and Publications relevant to the work that interests you, and additionally, watch some of Dr. Ideker’s recently recorded talks, such as the Researcher Spotlight Series, the Research Roundtable: The Artificial Intelligence Revolution, and the ATTIS 2023 Keynote Address.
Currently Seeking:
Researcher in Agentic AI for Mechanistic Cancer Discovery
Location: Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford
Application deadline: 27-Oct-2026 12:00
The ideal candidate should have cancer genomics expertise to lead an agentic AI science project. Interested applicants may view the complete job post and apply here.
Postdocs & Senior Research Scientists
In addition to current job posts (above), we are always interested in hearing from exceptional researchers. Applicants for computational studies must have a PhD in bioinformatics, computer science or a related discipline, and a strong background in machine learning and bioinformatics. Applicants for experimental ‘omics studies must have a PhD in the biological sciences with a strong background in genetics and genomics. All applicants must have a history of productive publication.
We currently have open postdoctoral positions at both the University of Oxford and UCSD. If interested in applying for a postdoctoral position, please submit your cover letter, CV, and three professional references to –
Graduate Students (Oxford DPhil)
We are currently accepting graduate students at the University of Oxford. If you have been admitted to an Oxford DPhil program and are interested in applying for a graduate student position, please submit your CV and professional references to: trey.ideker@bdi.ox.ac.uk and mariapaula.cazalgarcia@ndph.ox.ac.uk
Dr. Ideker is affiliated with the following graduate programs at the University of Oxford:
Ideker Lab develops bioinformatic resources for network analysis that are widely used by the biological and biomedical research community. The best known is Cytoscape, a collaborative open-source platform for visualizing and analyzing complex networks. Cytoscape is widely used, with tens of thousands of downloads per month and more than 25,000 citations from research papers. NDEx, the Network Data Exchange, is another major project. NDEx is a public web resource for sharing, storing, accessing, and publishing biological networks on the cloud. For more information about the Cytoscape Ecosystem & NDEx Network Cloud, visit the Software & Platforms page.
Inquires about positions with the Software Development Team at UC San Diego should contact Jing Chen (jic002@health.ucsd.edu)