PhD in Evolution of Novel Function Through Retrotransposable Element Exaptation The Francis Crick Institute in United Kingdom

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 at the University of Cambridge / Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute in tumour-initiating states , cancer biology , cell biology , genetics , genomics , molecular biology , molecular genetics , and related bioinformatics / epigenetics approaches. The project, supervised by Prof Masashi Narita , focuses on the biology of preneoplastic cell states and how cell identity, plasticity, chromatin organisation, and gene regulation are reshaped by oncogenic and metabolic signalling. Th...

PhD opportunity at the University of Cambridge in the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute / Teichmann Group, focused on genomics, bioinformatics, immunity, single-cell genomics, spatial genomics, immunology, cell biology, developmental biology, and genetics . The project sits in Professor Sarah Teichmann’s group, which studies how human cells are organized, how they communicate, and how these processes shape health and disease. The lab is a major contributor to the Human Cell Atlas and is especially i...

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 University of St Andrews in the School of Biology on FoxP2, vocal learning, speech and language evolution, transgenic bats, molecular genetics, neuroscience, bioinformatics . This EASTBIO/BBSRC-funded 4-year PhD project investigates how humans evolved speech and language by studying vocal learning in bats, a rare mammalian model for complex communication. The project focuses on the molecular and neural mechanisms of vocal learning, including the role of FoxP2 , a gene impl...