Funded PhD in developmental robustness and congenital eye defects The Francis Crick Institute in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity: Spatial Control of Wnt–ERK Signalling by Glypican-Dependent Ligand Dispersal in Development and Disease at the Babraham Institute (Cambridge), with the Babraham Institute Graduate Programme and BitBio. This project explores how glypicans regulate extracellular signalling environments, focusing on GPC6, Wnt ligand dispersal, ERK activation, and non-canonical Wnt pathway activity. The research connects developmental biology, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience, with rele...

PhD opportunity: How the embryo gets its shape at the Medical Research Council (Cambridge), Laboratory of Molecular Biology, with Dr K McDole. This project focuses on cell biology , developmental biology , and molecular biology , asking how complex 3D structures arise from initially homogeneous cell populations during early mammalian development. The lab studies how tissues fold, tubes involute, organs form, and how physical forces and changing mechanical environments influence cell behavior, ge...

Funded PhD project at the University of Warwick in the Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership, focused on how ancient gene regulatory programmes may govern both neural and pancreatic fates throughout vertebrate evolution. The project sits at the intersection of developmental biology , genetics , cell biology , and neuroscience . It builds on comparative functional genomics work identifying highly conserved non-coding elements (HCNEs) associated with transcription factor genes invo...

PhD opportunity in neuroscience , developmental biology , and molecular biology at the Medical Research Council (Cambridge) / Laboratory of Molecular Biology . The project, supervised by Dr A Cardona , investigates how neuronal activity shapes the development of correctly functioning neural circuits. Using the fruit fly embryo as a model system, the successful student will image samples with eFIB-SEM , reconstruct and proofread connectomes, and compare brain and nerve cord circuitry before and a...

Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Warwick (Coventry, United Kingdom) in neuroscience , cell biology , genetics , and mechanobiology . The project, titled How neurons sense tissue stiffness during maturation , investigates how neurons detect and respond to the stiffness of their surrounding tissue during development. The research builds on evidence that neuronal maturation can depend on local mechanical properties, with neurons maturing earlier in softer brain regions and more slowly in...