Funded PhD in Pluripotency-Specific Regulation of Transposable Elements in Mammalian Development MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences in United Kingdom

Funded PhD opportunity at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), London, United Kingdom. This project, “Fuelling proliferation: how transporters control metabolism in development and cancer” , sits at the intersection of cancer biology , cell biology , developmental biology , and molecular biology . It asks how cancers may revert to a stem cell-like state by reactivating developmental metabolic programmes, and whether membrane transporters help control this process. You will investigate h...

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom, focused on single-cell multi-omics , enhancer biology , and the developmental control of blood and cardiovascular fate . The project investigates how enhancer activity changes as blood, endothelial, and cardiac lineages emerge in the chick embryo. You will combine single-cell RNA-sequencing and ATAC-sequencing to reconstruct gene-regulatory networks, identify candidate enhancers, and study how hematoendothelial progenit...

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 in Epigenetics, Ageing, and Stem Cells at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge Stem Cell Institute). The Herzog Group, led by Dr Chiara Herzog, is recruiting prospective PhD students interested in epigenetics , DNA methylation , ageing , stem cells , and age-related disease . The project explores how the epigenome stores biological memory across life, how epigenetic changes relate to vulnerability and resilience, and whether epigenetic states can be rewritten to improve stem ce...

PhD opportunity at the University of Dundee in molecular basis of transcriptional regulation during mammalian pre-implantation development . This project focuses on how pioneer transcription factors regulate trophectoderm lineage commitment during early mammalian development, with emphasis on chromatin biology , nucleosome interactions , and developmental biology . The work combines biochemistry , structural biology , cryo-EM , and cell culture to uncover how transcription factors engage nucleos...