PhD in Molecular Mechanisms of RNA–Protein Interactions and Their Dysregulation in Human Disease King’s College London in United Kingdom

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 project at the University of Bath within the GW4 BioMed3 MRC Doctoral Landscape Programme (DLP) : Decoding Neurodevelopmental Disorders: From Patient Variants to Disease Mechanisms . This is a competition-funded PhD project for entry in September 2027 , with up to 17 studentships available across the GW4 BioMed3 partnership (Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter). The project investigates how disease-associated variants in HECTD1 affect protein stability, ubiquitin ligase activity, signalling pathw...

PhD opportunity at The Francis Crick Institute in London, United Kingdom: Enabling antibiotics discovery by targeted protein degradation with Dr Francesca Ester Morreale. This funded PhD project focuses on targeted protein degradation (TPD) in pathogenic bacteria as a new strategy for antibiotic discovery . The project will explore how to design novel antibiotic degraders and study their mechanism of action using biochemistry , biophysics , proteomics , and molecular microbiology . The lab’s bro...

PhD opportunity at The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom in regulatory switching of a microtubule motor-scaffold complex with Dr Sami Chaaban. This funded PhD project focuses on how microtubule motors , especially kinesins , organize microtubules and position regulatory proteins during cell division. The project asks how interactions with regulatory partners switch kinesins between functional states and how these changes shape specialized microtubule structures. Research methods in...

PhD opportunity in mechanism of transcription-coupled splicing at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, United Kingdom , supervised by Dr Suyang Zhang . The project focuses on how RNA polymerase II and the spliceosome communicate during co-transcriptional splicing to ensure accurate gene expression in eukaryotic cells. The lab studies the molecular mechanisms coordinating transcription and pre-mRNA splicing in human cells, including direct interactions betwee...