Master’s in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Padua University of Padua in Italy

Funded PhD opportunity at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, United Kingdom, on spatial and three-dimensional genome regulation during zygotic genome activation (ZGA) . This project explores how chromatin architecture, promoter-enhancer communication, boundary formation, insulation, and spatially restricted transcriptional states are coordinated as the embryonic genome becomes active. The work sits at the intersection of developmental genomics , chromatin biology , genomics ...

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...

PhD opportunity at the University of Edinburgh in chromosome evolution, karyotype evolution, comparative genomics, phylogenomics, genetics, molecular biology, plant biology , and bioinformatics. This project, supervised by Dr A Twyford in the School of Biological Sciences , investigates chromosome number and genome-structure evolution across the Orobanchaceae , a diverse plant family containing both free-living and parasitic species. The research will use newly available chromosome-level genome ...

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in plant biology , molecular biology , biochemistry , genetics , bioinformatics , and evolution . This project, supervised by Dr Ben Miller at the School of Biological Sciences , investigates how plants perceive and respond to environmental change through calcium signalling . The research focuses on the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha and compares stress-response pathways with flowering plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana . The project aims to und...

PhD opportunity at the University of St Andrews in the School of Biology, within the EASTBIO BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership. This project, “It’s getting hot in here: uncovering the molecular mechanisms underlying changes in social behaviour at increased temperatures,” explores how climate change and rising temperatures alter animal social behaviour and the molecular mechanisms behind those changes. The study system is the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides . The PhD will examine how te...