PhD Studentship: Chemical Biology to Defend Crops – Disrupting Protein Interactions Pathogens Use to Invade Plants University of East Anglia in United Kingdom

PhD Studentship: Designing Synthetic Proteins for Sustainable Control of Fungal Plant Diseases The University of Birmingham is offering a full-time PhD studentship in the United Kingdom through the Midlands Integrated Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP). The project combines plant pathology, fungal biology, plant immunity, computational protein design, and AI-based protein engineering. Fungal pathogens manipulate plant hosts by secreting effector proteins that disable host defences. The pro...

Funded PhD project in telomere biology , cancer biology , peptide design , protein biochemistry , molecular biology , cell biology , and synthetic/pharmaceutical chemistry at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences and Imperial College London in London, United Kingdom . The project asks how cells replicate chromosome ends while preserving telomere protection. You will study the shelterin complex, TRF2 interactions, and the origin recognition complex (ORC), with a focus on how disrupting these int...

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...

[4-year fully funded Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentship including payment of tuition fees, a stipend for living expenses at the 2026/27 rate of £21,805, and a Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] This fully funded PhD studentship at the University of East Anglia is hosted within the Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership and focuses on chemical biology approaches to tackling antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The p...

P21) Sustainable diversification of therapeutic peptides via amino-carbonylation is a fully funded PhD project at the University of York , delivered through the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Chemical Synthesis for a Healthy Planet (CSHP CDT) with joint training across York and Oxford. The project focuses on peptide chemistry , organic chemistry , synthetic chemistry , and chemical biology . The research will develop new strategies to chemically modify peptides via late-stage, transition ...