PhD in Neuronal Compensation for Natural Circuit Perturbations (BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DLA Programme) University of Sheffield in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity in human embryology, developmental biology, genomics, cell biology, human genetics and molecular biology at the Medical Research Council (Cambridge) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in the United Kingdom . This project, supervised by Dr M Shahbazi with co-supervision from Roser Vento-Tormo at the Wellcome Sanger Institute , asks a fundamental question in early human development: where do cells go in the human embryo? The research focuses on the first two weeks of development, when...

PhD opportunity at The Francis Crick Institute with Dr Michael Winding on the development and function of neural circuits underlying collective behaviour . The project focuses on how animals compare the costs and benefits of joining collective behaviour, using Drosophila melanogaster larvae as a model system. The research combines neuroscience , developmental biology , behavioural biology , and bioinformatics . Possible directions include uncovering the circuit mechanisms driving collective digg...

University of Sussex is advertising a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Molecular Cell Biology within the laboratory of Professor Claudio Alonso in Brighton, UK. The project focuses on the mechanisms underlying neural development and function in Drosophila , with research spanning molecular biology, transcriptomics, neurogenetics, optogenetics, optical neuronal imaging, neurophysiology, microscopy , and quantitative behavioural approaches. The role sits in the School of Life Sciences and ...

Funded PhD opportunity at The Francis Crick Institute with Dr Stephen Wilson. This project investigates developmental biology , genetics , zebrafish , eye formation , retinal morphogenesis , extracellular matrix , and mechanobiology . The research asks why congenital defects of eye formation show variable penetrance and severity, and how developmental robustness influences whether defects appear in one or both eyes. The student will use CRISPR-based screening to identify genes that modulate robu...

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom, focused on single-cell multi-omics , enhancer biology , and the developmental control of blood and cardiovascular fate . The project investigates how enhancer activity changes as blood, endothelial, and cardiac lineages emerge in the chick embryo. You will combine single-cell RNA-sequencing and ATAC-sequencing to reconstruct gene-regulatory networks, identify candidate enhancers, and study how hematoendothelial progenit...