PhD in Engineering Plant Cell Walls Beyond the Digestive Range of a Pest’s Bacterial Symbiont Gatsby Charitable Foundation in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom in molecular microbiology, plant cell wall engineering, symbiosis, entomology, and microbial genomics. This project, supervised by Dr Hassan Salem and Dr Aileen Berasategui, investigates whether plant cell walls can be engineered beyond the digestive range of a pest beetle’s bacterial symbiont, Stammera. The research focuses on pectin chemistry, especially methylesterification, and asks whether modifying leaf pectin can prevent he...

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 Durham University in AI protein design, structural biology, plant immunity, and bioinformatics . This fully funded four-year Gatsby Sainsbury PhD project in the Department of Biosciences and the Centre for Programmable Biological Matter (CPBM) aims to design synthetic plant immune receptors from first principles. The project combines generative protein design (including RFdiffusion, ProteinMPNN, and BindCraft), structural bioinformatics, structural biology, and plant functiona...

PhD opportunity at The James Hutton Institute in Dundee, United Kingdom, on Decoding Dynamic Plant Meristems . The project sits at the interface of plant biology , developmental biology , molecular biology , genomics , bioinformatics , biotechnology , and computational modelling . The research focuses on the shoot apical meristem (SAM) , a dynamic population of pluripotent cells that drives aerial plant development and floral transition. The project asks how carbon availability is linked to meri...

Funded PhD project at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, United Kingdom, in collaboration with Imperial College London and The University of Queensland . The project focuses on bioactive peptides , especially plant-derived cyclic peptides , with research spanning synthetic biology , bioinformatics , biophysics , biochemistry , molecular biology , microbiology , parasitology , entomology , and evolution . The aim is to produce and screen natural peptide sequences at scale, te...