PhD in Molecular Genetics of Speech and Language Using Transgenic Bats University of St Andrews 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 St Andrews in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience on descending and ascending control of locomotor and respiratory central pattern generators (CPGs) in health and disease . This project sits at the intersection of neuroscience , neurology , cell biology , and molecular biology , with a strong focus on motor control, respiratory control, and disease-relevant circuit mechanisms. The research will investigate how supraspinal descending pathways and ascendi...

PhD opportunity in Drosophila morphogenesis, cell contractility, and developmental biology at the University of St Andrews. This EASTBIO-funded project investigates the mechanisms underlying pulsed contractions during morphogenesis, with a focus on how rhythmic cytoskeletal contractility drives apical constriction and tissue shaping in Drosophila larval epithelial cells. The project combines cell biology , genetics , and molecular biology with advanced imaging and manipulation approaches. You wi...

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, within the EASTBIO BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership. This project, “It’s getting hot in here: uncovering the molecular mechanisms underlying changes in social behaviour at increased temperatures,” explores how climate change and rising temperatures alter animal social behaviour and the molecular mechanisms behind those changes. The study system is the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides . The PhD will examine how te...