PhD Studentship: AI-powered insights into susceptibility of parrots to viral infection, CASE project with Ebony Forest and Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust / Jersey Zoo University of East Anglia in United Kingdom

Earlham Institute in the UK is advertising 9 PhD studentships for an October 2027 start. The advertised research themes include plant gene regulation , genome language models , and fisheries pangenomics , making this a strong opportunity for students interested in the intersection of AI, biology, genomics, and computational life sciences . This is a PhD-level opening rather than a postdoctoral or master's call. The post does not provide detailed eligibility criteria, but the topics suggest a fit...

PhD opportunity at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Biochemistry with Dr Susanne Bornelöv. This project focuses on gene regulation , bioinformatics , machine learning , artificial intelligence , genomics , and molecular biology . The Bornelöv lab studies transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation, including codon usage, codon optimality-mediated mRNA decay, genome organisation, and evolutionary genomics. The work combines multi-omics data analysis, comparative genomics, r...

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in Evolutionary Genomics of Mimicry in Neotropical Catfishes , hosted by the School of Biological Sciences and supervised by Dr Martin Taylor . This project explores how mimicry evolves in Neotropical Corydoradinae catfishes, using comparative and population genomics to study repeated origins of similar colour patterns across more than 30 mimicry communities in South America. The research asks which genomic regions show divergent selection, whethe...

Alexandre Almeida, Group Leader at the University of Cambridge, is inviting expressions of interest from prospective PhD students for an October 2027 intake. The research opportunity focuses on the human gut microbiome at the intersection of bioinformatics, genomics, multi-omics and artificial intelligence . Projects may also include experimental work, offering opportunities to combine computational and laboratory-based approaches to investigate microbiome biology. Both home and international st...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in genomic signatures underlying functional diversity in root symbiotic fungi at the Earlham Institute , co-supervised with researchers at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . The project focuses on ectomycorrhizal fungi and how they trade nutrients with tree roots, with research spanning fungal genomics , comparative genomics , transcriptomics , microbiology , and environmental science . The student will investigate copy number variation in ecologically relevant genes, diff...