PhD Opportunity in Barley Root Adaptation and Crop Nitrogen-Use Efficiency for Sustainable Agriculture The James Hutton Institute in United Kingdom

Our NRPDTP Doctoral Training Partnership PhD projects are now open for an October 2027 start , based with leading supervisors at the John Innes Centre and the wider Norwich Research Park network. This is a PhD opportunity in bioscience , with research themes likely spanning plant and microbial biology, molecular bioscience, and related life-science areas. The post highlights a doctoral training partnership environment, which is typically designed for research training with multiple supervisors a...

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...

University College Cork is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in soil ecology to join the Microbiome and Soil Health Lab in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences. The researcher will contribute to the Horizon Europe-funded SoilRes project, SoilRes: Multi-Faceted Biodiversity Integration for A Healthy Soil and Resilient Crop Management . SOILRES brings together agricultural scientists, farmers and innovators across Europe to develop practical strategies for regenerating soil h...

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...