Funded PhD in Bioactive Peptides, Synthetic Biology and AI-Guided Design MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity: Engineered proteins to protect plants and animals from parasites at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, United Kingdom . This funded PhD project focuses on protein engineering , biotechnology , bioinformatics , biophysics , genetic engineering , microbiology , molecular biology , parasitology , and entomology . The research aims to discover and design proteins that selectively kill invertebrate pests and parasites while remaining safe for humans and other ani...

PhD opportunity in RNA replication , synthetic biology , in vitro evolution , ribozymes , and the origin of life at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, United Kingdom . The Holliger lab is seeking a PhD student to work on advancing RNA-catalyzed RNA synthesis toward an RNA system capable of self-replication and evolution. The project builds on discoveries in polymerase ribozymes, triplet substrates, and RNA replication under coupled pH and freeze-thaw cycle...

PhD project at Queen’s University Belfast within the SUSTAIN CDT: Leveraging AI to Predict Strain-Specific Susceptibility of Candida pathogenic yeast to Novel Antifungal “Resistance Breakers” . This project sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, genomics, bioinformatics, microbiology, genetics, molecular biology, and antifungal resistance . It addresses the public health challenge of systemic fungal infections caused by Candida species and explores how agricultural fungicide exposu...

PhD opportunity at Durham University in AI protein design, structural biology, plant immunity, and bioinformatics . This fully funded four-year Gatsby Sainsbury PhD project in the Department of Biosciences and the Centre for Programmable Biological Matter (CPBM) aims to design synthetic plant immune receptors from first principles. The project combines generative protein design (including RFdiffusion, ProteinMPNN, and BindCraft), structural bioinformatics, structural biology, and plant functiona...

PhD opportunity in mechanism of transcription-coupled splicing at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, United Kingdom , supervised by Dr Suyang Zhang . The project focuses on how RNA polymerase II and the spliceosome communicate during co-transcriptional splicing to ensure accurate gene expression in eukaryotic cells. The lab studies the molecular mechanisms coordinating transcription and pre-mRNA splicing in human cells, including direct interactions betwee...