Personalized responses to diets high in plant food diversity King's College London in United Kingdom

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...

Funded PhD opportunity at Ulster University in the PEARL-MAP / PEARL-OMICS partnership. The project focuses on conservation genomics and integrates multi-omics , eDNA , and catchment data to understand stress and restoration responses in endangered freshwater pearl mussels in Ireland. This PhD is suitable for graduates in biomedical science , biological science , environmental science , bioinformatics , or a related field. Coding and sequencing experience are welcome but not essential, and the p...

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...