PhD in Temperature Control of Stomata Development in a Warming World University of Dundee in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at the University of Dundee in plant parasite effectors , host-parasite interactions , and nanobody-based tools . This EASTBIO/BBSRC-funded project is hosted in the groups of Dr Jorunn Bos and Prof Paul Birch in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Dundee , with links to the James Hutton Institute. The project focuses on developing new tools to study how plant parasites deliver and use effector molecules during infection/infestation, and how these effectors inter...

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...

PhD opportunity at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, United Kingdom, within the Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Programme (NRPDTP). The project asks how connections between plant cells and their neighbours control how a cell responds, focusing on plasmodesmata, cell-to-cell connectivity, and immune-associated gene expression. The research explores how plasmodesmal opening/closure affects the movement of molecules between cells and how this relates to plant responses to pathog...

PhD opportunity in engineering biology, plant science, and gene regulatory networks at the Earlham Institute (Norwich, United Kingdom). This project in the Guiziou Group focuses on decoding the gene regulatory networks that control lateral root initiation in Arabidopsis . The research combines engineering biology , single-cell RNA sequencing , fluorescence microscopy, FACS, and DNA-based recorders based on serine integrase to reconstruct the order of gene expression during lateral root founder c...

PhD opportunity at the University of Edinburgh in chromosome evolution, karyotype evolution, comparative genomics, phylogenomics, genetics, molecular biology, plant biology , and bioinformatics. This project, supervised by Dr A Twyford in the School of Biological Sciences , investigates chromosome number and genome-structure evolution across the Orobanchaceae , a diverse plant family containing both free-living and parasitic species. The research will use newly available chromosome-level genome ...