Funded PhD in How Neurons Sense Tissue Stiffness During Maturation University of Warwick in United Kingdom

Funded PhD project at the University of Bristol in the School of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences on GPCR signalling, proteostasis, receptor trafficking, and neuropsychiatric genetics . The project, supervised by Dr Adam Grieve and Prof I Collinson , investigates how disease-associated variants in G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) alter receptor folding, intracellular trafficking, turnover, and signalling in neuronal systems. It combines molecular biology, cell biology, biochemistry, funct...

Funded PhD project at The Francis Crick Institute in collaboration with University College London : Mechanically Induced Gene Regulatory Networks Driving Neural Crest Lineage Switching . This project investigates how mechanical confinement influences neural crest cell fate decisions, shifting cells from a neurogenic programme toward a mesenchymal lineage. The work combines developmental biology , cell biology , gene regulatory networks , mechanobiology , single-cell RNA sequencing , scATAC-seq ,...

Funded PhD opportunity at The Francis Crick Institute with Dr Stephen Wilson. This project investigates developmental biology , genetics , zebrafish , eye formation , retinal morphogenesis , extracellular matrix , and mechanobiology . The research asks why congenital defects of eye formation show variable penetrance and severity, and how developmental robustness influences whether defects appear in one or both eyes. The student will use CRISPR-based screening to identify genes that modulate robu...

PhD opportunity at the University of Birmingham in the lab of Sofia Ahola , Assistant Professor in the Department of Metabolism and Systems Science. The project asks why some cells tolerate mitochondrial DNA mutations while others develop severe disease, with a focus on mitochondrial dysfunction , tissue-specific disease , and the identification of therapeutic targets . The studentship is part of the newly established MRC Centre of Research Excellence in Mitochondrial Genome Therapeutics (MitoGT...

PhD opportunity at the University of St Andrews in the School of Biology on FoxP2, vocal learning, speech and language evolution, transgenic bats, molecular genetics, neuroscience, bioinformatics . This EASTBIO/BBSRC-funded 4-year PhD project investigates how humans evolved speech and language by studying vocal learning in bats, a rare mammalian model for complex communication. The project focuses on the molecular and neural mechanisms of vocal learning, including the role of FoxP2 , a gene impl...