Fully Funded PhD Positions in Microbiome, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Wildlife Ecology (2026) University of Exeter in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at the University of Warwick in communication, competition and resilience in structured bacterial communities . This funded PhD project sits at the intersection of biology , mathematical modelling , microbiology , and environmental science . Working with Dr Albane Thery and Dr Munehiro Asally , the project investigates how bacterial biofilms communicate and reorganise under stress. The research focuses on long-range signalling in E. coli biofilms, including electrical waves, nutr...

University of Warwick is advertising a Life Sciences PhD in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick (Coventry, UK). This is a practical, research-based doctorate built around a single project supervised by one of Warwick’s research leaders, with dissertation and oral examination as the main assessment methods. The programme highlights a strong research environment, with the School of Life Sciences noting that much of its research was rated world-leading or internationally excell...

Competitively funded PhD opportunity at the University of Salford on the ecology and evolution of antimicrobial resistance in urban wildlife , with a specific focus on wild gulls and bacterial pathogens. The project will investigate how normally harmless bacterial strains in urban wildlife evolve pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance . The student will have opportunities for gull fieldwork, but the project will primarily involve lab work , sequencing , and bioinformatics , so experience in the...

[4-year Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentship; tuition fees paid directly to the University; stipend of £21,805 per year (2026/27 rate); Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] This PhD studentship at the University of East Anglia is focused on the One Health (meta)genomics of E. coli-associated urinary tract infections (UTIs) in pregnancy . The project addresses an important women’s health and infectious disease problem: UTIs affect a subst...

The Holmes lab at Southern Illinois University is recruiting a PhD student for a fully funded, 5-year research assistantship in road ecology , conservation biology , and molecular ecology . The project focuses on the impacts of roads on natural systems in the eastern hardwood forest, with an emphasis on improving conservation practices for state and federal threatened and endangered species. The student will work on bat monitoring at new construction sites and may also develop a broader research...