Funded PhD in Engineered Proteins to Protect Plants and Animals from Parasites MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences in United Kingdom

Funded PhD project at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, United Kingdom, in collaboration with Imperial College London and The University of Queensland . The project focuses on bioactive peptides , especially plant-derived cyclic peptides , with research spanning synthetic biology , bioinformatics , biophysics , biochemistry , molecular biology , microbiology , parasitology , entomology , and evolution . The aim is to produce and screen natural peptide sequences at scale, te...

Funded PhD project at the University of Cambridge , Department of Chemistry, in the Mateo Sanchez Lab . The project sits at the interface of chemistry, cell biology, neuroscience, protein engineering, synthetic biology , and molecular biotechnology. The research will focus on developing new molecular tools using directed evolution , protein design , and novel selection/screening strategies to create new protein chimeras. Depending on the candidate’s interests and project progress, the work may i...

PhD opportunity: Decoding Dynamic Plant Meristems at the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, with supervision from Dr Vanessa Wahl and Prof Henrik Jönsson. This project focuses on plant biology , developmental biology , plant cell biology , genomics , molecular biology , bioinformatics , and biotechnology . The research asks how the shoot apical meristem (SAM) changes during the floral transition, especially how carbon availability, hormones, meristem maintenance networks, and gene regulation are inte...

PhD opportunity: Engineering plant cell walls beyond the digestive range of a pest’s bacterial symbiont. This competition-funded PhD project focuses on plant cell wall engineering, pectin chemistry, symbiosis, entomology, microbial genomics, and molecular biology. The research asks whether modifying plant pectin so it falls outside the digestive range of a beetle’s bacterial symbiont can reduce insect feeding and protect plants. The project combines CRISPR/Cas9 editing, targeted gene overexpress...

PhD opportunity at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom in molecular microbiology, plant cell wall engineering, symbiosis, entomology, and microbial genomics. This project, supervised by Dr Hassan Salem and Dr Aileen Berasategui, investigates whether plant cell walls can be engineered beyond the digestive range of a pest beetle’s bacterial symbiont, Stammera. The research focuses on pectin chemistry, especially methylesterification, and asks whether modifying leaf pectin can prevent he...