PhD Opportunities in Bioscience for NRPDTP Doctoral Training Partnership (October 2027 Start) John Innes Centre 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 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...

EASTBIO PhD opportunity at the University of Dundee in plant science, with a focus on how cereals make their skin: plant surface development, cuticle formation, epidermal cell differentiation, and stress resilience in barley. The project explores how land plants coordinate protective surface features such as the waxy cuticle, gas pores, and defensive epidermal structures. Using barley as the model system, the research will combine biochemical and molecular biology approaches with CRISPR-Cas gene...

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 University of Warwick in collaboration with the Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership and project partner Vitacress. This funded PhD focuses on plant biology , biological sciences , and molecular biology , with a strong applied angle in crop disease epidemiology . The project investigates Basil Downy Mildew (caused by Peronospora belbahrii ) in sweet basil, a globally important culinary herb and high-value crop. Research themes include: characterising BDM r...