Engineering Heritable Epigenetic States in an Invertebrate Model Queen Mary University of London in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at the Earlham Institute in Norwich, United Kingdom , focused on engineering fitness in disease-resistant crops . This project sits at the intersection of agriculture , biology , genetics , genomics , molecular biology , bioinformatics , and genetic engineering , with a strong emphasis on engineering biology and laboratory automation. The research addresses a major challenge in crop improvement: disease resistance can protect plants but sometimes reduces growth and yield. The pro...

PhD opportunity in DNA replication origins, genome language models, and synthetic biology at the Earlham Institute, Norwich, United Kingdom. This interdisciplinary project explores how DNA replication origins are encoded and regulated in genomes, and how artificial intelligence can be used to design new genetic elements that control replication. The work combines computational biology, genomics, synthetic biology, machine learning, genome engineering, CRISPR-based genome editing, next-generation...

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom, focused on single-cell multi-omics , enhancer biology , and the developmental control of blood and cardiovascular fate . The project investigates how enhancer activity changes as blood, endothelial, and cardiac lineages emerge in the chick embryo. You will combine single-cell RNA-sequencing and ATAC-sequencing to reconstruct gene-regulatory networks, identify candidate enhancers, and study how hematoendothelial progenit...

PhD opportunity: Decoding Dynamic Plant Meristems at the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, with supervision from Dr Vanessa Wahl and Prof Henrik Jönsson. This project focuses on plant biology , developmental biology , plant cell biology , genomics , molecular biology , bioinformatics , and biotechnology . The research asks how the shoot apical meristem (SAM) changes during the floral transition, especially how carbon availability, hormones, meristem maintenance networks, and gene regulation are inte...

Funded PhD opportunity at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, United Kingdom, on spatial and three-dimensional genome regulation during zygotic genome activation (ZGA) . This project explores how chromatin architecture, promoter-enhancer communication, boundary formation, insulation, and spatially restricted transcriptional states are coordinated as the embryonic genome becomes active. The work sits at the intersection of developmental genomics , chromatin biology , genomics ...