EU-funded PhD position in the evolution of recently emerged small proteins GRIB Barcelona in Spain

Fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Barcelona in the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) and the Genetics Doctoral Programme. Cristian Cañestro’s lab is offering a 4-year FPI predoctoral contract linked to the project Gene loss impact: evolution of cardioparaxial-neuromesodermal development and genome scrambling in Oikopleura dioica as a case study (OikoLoss). The project asks how massive gene loss can shape evolutionary innovation, using the chordate Oikopleura dioica as a nat...

Postdoctoral position in comparative genomics and evolutionary venomics within the newly funded DRIVEN project (DRIvers and mechanisms of VENom evolution in ribbon worms) at the Aida Verdes Gorín research group , based at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC) in Madrid, Spain . The project will study the genomic mechanisms underlying venom evolution using chromosome-scale genome sequencing , comparative genomics , single-cell transcriptomics , and spatial transcriptomics . This is...

Postdoctoral opportunity at the Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), Madrid, Spain. The project focuses on comparative genomics and evolutionary venomics , studying venom evolution in ribbon worms using chromosome-scale sequencing, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, RNA-seq, and comparative genomics. The successful candidate will lead the bioinformatics component of the project, including genome assembly and annotation, anal...

PhD opportunity in Evolution of Cell Type Programs and Genome Regulation at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain. This funded PhD project sits within the CRG International PhD Fellowships Programme 2027 and focuses on the origin and evolution of cell type programs and genome regulation mechanisms. The research combines single-cell genomics , chromatin profiling , and phylogenetic comparative methods to study transcription factors, 3D chromatin architecture, histone modificat...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at the Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics (CBGP), Madrid, Spain, in the Root organogenesis, regeneration and regeneration laboratory with Dr. Miguel A. Moreno Risueño and Dr. Mary Paz González García. The project focuses on how climate change-induced temperature fluctuations affect root stem cell formation and tissue regeneration , with an emphasis on molecular feedback loops connecting stem cell regulators, telomere dynamics, and auxin signaling under clima...