PhD in Bacterial Host Control of Domesticated Viral Machines and Horizontal Gene Transfer in Marine Environments University of East Anglia in United Kingdom

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 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...

PhD opportunity in chemical communication and speciation at the University of St Andrews This EASTBIO-funded PhD project in the School of Biology focuses on pheromones, cuticular hydrocarbons, evolutionary genetics, bioinformatics, behavioural ecology, and speciation biology . The project is based at the University of St Andrews and is supervised by Prof Mike Ritchie and Dr N Bailey . The research asks how divergence in pheromone detection and production contributes to sexual isolation and rapid...

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...

Funded PhD project at the University of Warwick, based in Coventry, United Kingdom, on translational control mechanisms that pattern early embryo development . The project focuses on how maternal mRNAs are translated in early animal embryos and how this regulates embryonic axes and early lineage specification. Research will use C. elegans embryos and combine quantitative imaging , single-mRNA live imaging , CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing , and biochemical approaches to study conserved signaling pathwa...