PhD in Decoding Dynamic Plant Meristems: Carbon Signalling, Floral Transition, and Computational Modelling The James Hutton Institute in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity: Decoding Dynamic Plant Meristems at the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, with supervision from Dr Vanessa Wahl and Prof Henrik Jönsson. This project focuses on plant biology , developmental biology , plant cell biology , genomics , molecular biology , bioinformatics , and biotechnology . The research asks how the shoot apical meristem (SAM) changes during the floral transition, especially how carbon availability, hormones, meristem maintenance networks, and gene regulation are inte...

PhD opportunity at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), London, United Kingdom This funded PhD project, “Mutate, model, predict: uncovering how regulatory elements encode gene expression dynamics,” brings together developmental biology, genomics, human genetics, bioinformatics, statistics, and mathematical modelling. The project asks how non-coding cis-regulatory elements control when, where, and how strongly genes are expressed during development. You will work across three complementa...

PhD opportunity: Cross-Species determinants of stress susceptibility in PSC-derived Neural Progenitors and Spinal Motor Neurons. This funded PhD project is based at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, United Kingdom , and is part of the Babraham Institute Graduate Programme / BioSCaPe iDLA Studentship . The project is supervised by Dr Teresa Rayon and is conducted in collaboration with Axol , offering both academic and industrial research exposure. Research focus: developmental biology, stem ce...

Funded PhD project at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, United Kingdom on reading tissue history and exposures using spatial single-cell genomics . The project is based in the newly established Tissue Biology Group and focuses on building and applying technologies that can read cellular history while preserving spatial context in intact human tissue. Research themes include spatial lineage tracing , single-cell and spatial genomics , DNA methylation , somatic mutations , ex...

Funded PhD project at The Francis Crick Institute with Dr Margarida Cardoso Moreira in London, United Kingdom. This project asks how maternal immune systems evolved to support the placenta and tolerate genetically mismatched embryonic tissue. The research combines developmental biology , evolution , genomics , immunology , reproductive biology , and bioinformatics , with a strong emphasis on analysing large single-cell datasets. A key comparative angle is the study of pregnancy in mammals and in...