Fully Funded PhD in Plant Chemical Defence, Single-Cell Biology, and Metabolomics The Sainsbury Laboratory in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in the School of Biological Sciences on understanding the evolution of calcium signal decoding mechanisms in plants . The project is supervised by Dr Ben Miller and focuses on how plants use calcium signalling to respond to environmental stimuli and stresses, with a particular emphasis on the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha . This research combines molecular genetics , cell biology , and biochemistry to dissect calcium signalling and decoding mech...

Funded PhD project at The Francis Crick Institute in collaboration with King's College London on quiescence-associated metabolic programmes in two related yeasts, Schizosaccharomyces japonicus and S. pombe . The project is supervised by Prof Jürg Bähler and Dr S Oliferenko and sits at the intersection of cell biology , genetics , genomics , microbiology , molecular biology , and bioinformatics . The research asks how cells enter and maintain quiescence, how metabolic flexibility shapes survival ...

PhD opportunity at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain in the CRG International PhD Programme 2027 . The Novoa lab (Dr Eva Maria Novoa) studies RNA dynamics with a strong focus on RNA modifications and the epitranscriptome . This project uses a combination of wet and dry methods , including nanopore sequencing , to investigate how molecular information is carried in sperm and how environmental exposures may be transmitted to the next generation. This PhD is aimed at a highl...

Funded PhD project at the University of Warwick, based in Coventry, United Kingdom, on translational control mechanisms that pattern early embryo development . The project focuses on how maternal mRNAs are translated in early animal embryos and how this regulates embryonic axes and early lineage specification. Research will use C. elegans embryos and combine quantitative imaging , single-mRNA live imaging , CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing , and biochemical approaches to study conserved signaling pathwa...

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...