Funded PhD in Synthetic Cells, Biophysics, and Zebrafish Development University of Warwick in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at the University of Dundee on how cell size controls cell fate during asymmetric cell division in the developing nervous system. This project sits in the Faculty of Life Sciences and uses Drosophila neural stem cells to investigate cell fate specification , asymmetric cell division , and the molecular mechanisms that drive unequal segregation of fate determinants. The work combines genetics , chemical genetics , CRISPR , confocal laser scanning microscopy , image analysis , and ...

PhD project at the University of Bath within the GW4 BioMed3 MRC Doctoral Landscape Programme (DLP) : Decoding Neurodevelopmental Disorders: From Patient Variants to Disease Mechanisms . This is a competition-funded PhD project for entry in September 2027 , with up to 17 studentships available across the GW4 BioMed3 partnership (Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter). The project investigates how disease-associated variants in HECTD1 affect protein stability, ubiquitin ligase activity, signalling pathw...

PhD opportunity in pathological protein assembly in neurodegenerative diseases at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom . The project is centered on the molecular pathology of neurodegeneration, with a focus on amyloid filament formation by disease-associated proteins such as TDP-43 , annexin A11 , and TAF15 . Two PhD project directions are described. One aims to reproduce pathological protein filament structures in vitro using protein biochemist...

Funded PhD project at the University of Bristol in the School of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences on PINK1 , mitochondrial quality control , and Parkinson’s disease . The project, supervised by Prof I Collinson and Dr Robin Corey , investigates how PINK1 switches between alternative fates in mitochondria: matrix import versus cleavage/retro-translocation and outer-membrane activation. The research combines biochemistry , biophysics , cell biology , and computational modelling to study the co...

PhD opportunity at the University of Bath in peptide design, TFEB activation, autophagy, lysosome biology, neurodegeneration, biochemistry, biophysics, cell biology, molecular biology, structural biology, and neuroscience . This project is part of the GW4 BioMed3 MRC Doctoral Landscape Programme (DLP) , which offers up to 17 studentships for entry in September 2026 . The project asks whether designed peptides can directly activate TFEB , a key regulator of cellular waste clearance, to improve re...