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PhD opportunity in wheat , soil microbiology , plant-microbe interactions , metabolomics , bioinformatics , and environmental microbiology at the John Innes Centre and the neighbouring Earlham Institute in Norwich, United Kingdom . This project investigates the plant “ cry-for-help ” effect in wheat: how roots respond to pathogen attack by changing metabolite secretion and recruiting beneficial soil microbes. The student will work with wheat split-root microcosms and microbial communities of var...

PhD opportunity: Evolutionary and Ecological Impact of the Western Lifestyle on the Gut Microbiome at Quadram Institute Bioscience within the Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Programme (NRPDTP) . This project investigates how Western lifestyles shape the ecology and evolution of the human gut microbiome. Using more than 6,000 gut metagenomes and strain-resolved metagenomics, the project will examine ecological and evolutionary signatures associated with industrialisation, bact...

PhD opportunity at the University of Edinburgh in pancreatic β-cell RNA biology, insulin biosynthesis, and post-transcriptional regulation. This EASTBIO BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership project investigates how pancreatic β-cell RNA binding proteins (RBPs) regulate insulin mRNA localisation, translation, stability, and decay under euglycaemic and hyperglycaemic conditions. The work aims to uncover the molecular links between glucose metabolism, RBP regulation, and β-cell dysfunction in type 2...

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia (School of Biological Sciences) with Dr W Haerty in Norwich, United Kingdom . This project focuses on genomics , population genetics , bioinformatics , marine biology , and biodiversity , using long-read DNA sequencing and pangenome approaches to quantify genetic diversity and population structure in wild fisheries species. The study will compare commercially harvested populations of Atlantic bluefin tuna and Atlantic herring , with an emphasis on...

PhD opportunity at The Francis Crick Institute with Dr Ekaterina Osipova on genetic mechanisms of metabolic rate control in birds and mammals . This project focuses on how metabolic rate varies across animals and how genetic elements, genes, and regulatory regions shape those differences. The work combines comparative genomics , evolution , genomics , bioinformatics , molecular genetics , and potentially lab-based validation . The lab uses evolutionary rate-based methods and machine-learning app...