PhD positions Universiteit Gent in Belgium

KU Leuven in Belgium is advertising a PhD position in a research project on LINE-1 transposition , host factors , and their role in human disease. The group is internationally known for work on HIV host factors , including LEDGF/p75 and Transportin-SR2, and has extended this expertise to LINE-1, a human retrotransposon implicated in neuroinflammatory diseases . The project investigates how host factors facilitate LINE-1 transposition and aims to identify inhibitors of LINE-1 transposition in cel...

Doctoral candidate with application for an FWO grant at KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium) in the interdisciplinary research facility Molecular Medicine within the Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences. The project is led by Prof. Dr. Zeger Debyser and focuses on human LINE-1 retrotransposition , host factors that facilitate LINE-1 transposition, and the development of inhibitors in cell culture and animal models. The research also uses IPSC-derived human neuron cultures , linking t...

PhD opportunity at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain on Decoding the Poly(A) Tail: RNA Regulation and Cancer . The project is hosted by the Gebauer lab and supervised by Dr Fátima Gebauer . Research focuses on RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) , mRNA translation , poly(A) tail biology , genomics , and how RNA regulatory networks influence cancer progression and cancer cell plasticity. A key aim is to develop methods to identify and characterize the poly(A)-tail-bound proteome...

PhD opportunity at the University of St Andrews in the School of Biology: Eastbio: Cracking the Collagen Code: Engineering Enzymes to Control Peptide Generation . This collaborative CASE PhD with Planetfix focuses on biochemistry , biotechnology , enzymology , protein engineering , and analytical science . The project investigates how enzymes process collagen-rich proteins, how enzyme-substrate interactions affect peptide generation, and how to improve methods for characterising protein hydrolys...

PhD opportunity at the University of Dundee in the area of gut microbiota, glycan metabolism, microbiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, structural biology , and bioinformatics. This EASTBIO BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership project is titled “Understanding the genetic and molecular basis of complex glycan metabolism by the human gut microbiota.” The research focuses on how beneficial gut microbes such as Bacteroides and Prevotella break down complex dietary glycans, and how...