Fully Funded PhD in Cellular Stress and Neuronal Development Babraham Institute in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity: Cross-Species determinants of stress susceptibility in PSC-derived Neural Progenitors and Spinal Motor Neurons. This funded PhD project is based at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, United Kingdom , and is part of the Babraham Institute Graduate Programme / BioSCaPe iDLA Studentship . The project is supervised by Dr Teresa Rayon and is conducted in collaboration with Axol , offering both academic and industrial research exposure. Research focus: developmental biology, stem ce...

Funded PhD project at The Francis Crick Institute in collaboration with University College London : Mechanically Induced Gene Regulatory Networks Driving Neural Crest Lineage Switching . This project investigates how mechanical confinement influences neural crest cell fate decisions, shifting cells from a neurogenic programme toward a mesenchymal lineage. The work combines developmental biology , cell biology , gene regulatory networks , mechanobiology , single-cell RNA sequencing , scATAC-seq ,...

PhD opportunity at the University of Cambridge / Cambridge Stem Cell Institute in neuroscience , stem cells , developmental biology , and cell biology . The project, “Neurotransmitter signalling to central nervous system progenitor cells,” is led by Professor Ragnhildur Thóra Káradóttir (Káradóttir Group). The research focuses on how oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) sense neuronal activity and neurotransmitter signals, decide whether to differentiate into myelin-producing oligodendrocytes ...

The University of Cambridge is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the research group of Professor Rita Horvath at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and the John Van Geest Brain Repair Centre . This post focuses on the molecular and cellular biology of mitochondrial disease models , with a specific emphasis on ataxia telangiectasia , neurological progression, and treatment response. The project is part of a research grant from the joint call of Action Medical Research and...

PhD opportunity at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences on programmed axon death , SARM1 , NMNAT2 , and protein design . The project focuses on understanding the mechanism of programmed axon death, an intrinsic axonal death pathway implicated in neurodegenerative disease and injury. The work will use rational protein design to create variant forms of SARM1 or hybrid reporter constructs to study activation, stability, enzyme activity, and post-translational modi...