PhD in The Evolutionary Logic of Amniogenesis: lessons from stem cell models The Francis Crick Institute in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity: Cross-Species determinants of stress susceptibility in PSC-derived Neural Progenitors and Spinal Motor Neurons. This funded PhD project is based at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, United Kingdom , and is part of the Babraham Institute Graduate Programme / BioSCaPe iDLA Studentship . The project is supervised by Dr Teresa Rayon and is conducted in collaboration with Axol , offering both academic and industrial research exposure. Research focus: developmental biology, stem ce...

PhD opportunity at the University of Dundee in post-transcriptional control of the segmentation clock and somitogenesis . This project sits at the intersection of developmental biology , molecular biology , cell biology , biochemistry , and bioinformatics . The research investigates how RNA-binding proteins and microRNAs regulate clock gene expression during early embryogenesis, with a focus on the segmentation clock, somite formation, and disease relevance such as congenital scoliosis and T-cel...

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 ...

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in the School of Biological Sciences on understanding the evolution of calcium signal decoding mechanisms in plants . The project is supervised by Dr Ben Miller and focuses on how plants use calcium signalling to respond to environmental stimuli and stresses, with a particular emphasis on the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha . This research combines molecular genetics , cell biology , and biochemistry to dissect calcium signalling and decoding mech...

PhD opportunity: How the embryo gets its shape at the Medical Research Council (Cambridge), Laboratory of Molecular Biology, with Dr K McDole. This project focuses on cell biology , developmental biology , and molecular biology , asking how complex 3D structures arise from initially homogeneous cell populations during early mammalian development. The lab studies how tissues fold, tubes involute, organs form, and how physical forces and changing mechanical environments influence cell behavior, ge...