Environmental Microbiology & Biotechnology Heriot-Watt University in United Kingdom

Research Fellow in Environmental Microbiology and Nitrogen Cycling at the University of Warwick (School/Department: Life Sciences). This fixed-term, full-time role is part of a NERC-funded project titled “Partners in crime: Does microbial cooperation exacerbate nitrous oxide emission from soil?” . The project investigates how ammonia oxidation , microbial interactions , and nutrient exchange between ammonia-oxidising and denitrifying microorganisms shape nitrogen cycling and N2O production in so...

Joshua Lawrence is starting a new group at the University of Warwick School of Life Sciences next September and is advertising two funded PhD opportunities . The lab will be interdisciplinary, combining synthetic biology , electrochemistry , and biophysical methods to map the bioenergetic pathways of microorganisms and engineer them for sustainable biotechnologies. The projects are collaborative with Julie Macpherson and Joseph Beckwith in the Department of Chemistry . Funding is through the Mid...

PhD opportunity at Queen's University Belfast in Engineering Bioactive Peptides for Vaginal Microbiome Restoration and Sustained Vaginal Delivery . This funded PhD sits in the School of Biological Sciences and is supported by the NorthWestBio DTP . The project investigates how engineered bioactive peptides can selectively shift disrupted vaginal microbiome models toward a more protective state, with a focus on vaginal microbiome , bioactive peptides , biofilm science , microbiology , epithelial ...

PhD opportunity in antibiotic discovery at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, United Kingdom, focused on Streptomyces bacteria , microbiology , bacteriology , biochemistry , biotechnology , molecular biology , chemistry , and soil science . The project is supervised by Professor Matt Hutchings and investigates how a key regulator controls the Streptomyces lifecycle, sporulation, spore germination, and the activation of silent specialised metabolite biosynthetic pathways. The research aims to iden...

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom, focused on wheat rust resistance , soil microbial diversity , rhizosphere microbiology , and plant-microbe interactions . The project, led by Prof Diane Saunders , investigates how disruption of wheat susceptibility genes (S-genes) affects root exudation, the wheat rhizosphere microbiome, and sustainable deployment strategies for disease resistance. The research combines field and greenhouse experiments , metagenomics ,...