PhD in Postreproductive Maternal Care and the Evolution of Sex Differences in Lifespan University of East Anglia in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in the School of Biological Sciences on Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance of Responses to Environmental Stress . This project investigates how environmental stress responses may be transmitted across generations through non-genetic / epigenetic inheritance . Using Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system, the research will examine whether key cellular stress responses can be inherited, whether this improves survival and fitness under stress...

PhD opportunity in the University of Kent lab group on Circular DNA as a novel method of plant evolution . This project is a PhD by Research and is co-supervised by James Budge and Neil Kad . The post is being advertised by Helen Cockerton (Industrial Research Fellow, University of Kent), who invites interested candidates to get in touch. Research focus: circular DNA, plant evolution, genetics, molecular biology, and evolutionary biology. Eligibility: the opportunity is available to students wit...

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 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 Edinburgh in Host Receptor Evolution as a Barrier to Viral Spillover , offered through the EASTBIO BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership . This project sits at the intersection of cell biology , genetics , molecular biology , and evolutionary analysis . The research aims to identify and characterise viral entry receptors and host factors that influence whether viruses can cross species barriers and cause zoonotic transmission. The student will focus on viruses ...