PhD in Plant Surface Development, CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing, and Crop Resilience University of Dundee in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at the John Innes Centre in the Saunders Lab on deciphering critical regulators in wheat rust immunity . The project focuses on plant pathology , wheat genetics , molecular biology , bioinformatics , microbiology , and plant biology , with an emphasis on how branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) influence salicylic acid-mediated defence against yellow rust in wheat. The research aims to uncover the link between BCAA accumulation and activation of the MYB/SANT transcription factor Ta...

University of Oxford is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Molecular Biology for an exciting synthetic biology project funded by a major new £6.7 million ARIA grant . The role focuses on the further development and application of DNA assembly technology to create synthetic organelle genomes , with real-world testing of synthetic chloroplast genomes in crop plants including potato and wheat . The work is linked to translation-oriented research with potential impact on disease resista...

Fully funded PhD position in plant epigenetics and periderm formation under stress at the University of Perpignan Via Domitia in France, within the Plant Genome and Development Laboratory (LGDP) and co-hosted by the University of Girona's Cork Laboratory . This opportunity is a strong fit for students interested in plant biology , molecular biology , biochemistry , genomics , plant physiology , and stress-related developmental processes. The project focuses on how plants form periderm under stre...

PhD opportunity at the University of Dundee / James Hutton Institute in plant science, focusing on how plants respond to warming temperatures and how temperature controls stomata development. The project, “EASTBIO - How Plants Breathe in a Warming World: Temperature Control of Stomata Development,” is based in Dundee, United Kingdom, and is supervised by Dr Martin Balcerowicz and Dr Sarah McKim. It investigates thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana and explores whether similar hormonal reg...

PhD opportunity at the John Innes Centre in plant temperature signalling via modulation of small-RNA signalling (PENFIELD_J27DTP), based in Norwich, United Kingdom . This project sits within the Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Programme (NRPDTP) and is aimed at students interested in how plants sense and adapt to changing temperatures. The research combines plant biology , genetics , molecular biology , genomics , chromatin biology , and single-cell analysis to investigate ho...