PhD Studentship: Designing synthetic proteins for sustainable control of fungal plant diseases University of Birmingham in United Kingdom

Adam Bentham at Durham University is recruiting for a fully funded 4-year Gatsby Sainsbury PhD studentship. The project focuses on designing plant immune receptors from scratch, combining AI protein design, structural biology, and plant immunity. This is a strong fit for students interested in biology, computer science, and protein engineering approaches to plant science. The post is shared by an academic who appears to be the supervisor/host for the opening. The opportunity is based at Durham U...

PhD opportunity for UK students at the University of York in a project on reducing chemical pollution through future farming systems . The advertised project is titled “Understanding consumers’ responses to underutilized crops and implications for the environment” and is associated with Eleanor Jew . This is a research-focused doctoral opening spanning environmental science , agriculture , and chemistry , with additional relevance to crop systems, consumer responses, and sustainability in farmin...

More PhD opportunities are available in agri-relevant disciplines , including one linked to the poster’s own research theme. The opportunity is part of a fully funded dual scheme involving Nottingham Trent University and University of Nottingham . The highlighted theme is “Nitro-gen(eration): Attaining Resilient Fertilizers for Sustainable Food Production” , co-led by Katalin Kovács (University of Nottingham) and Andy Gill (Nottingham Trent University). This suggests research at the intersection...

PhD opportunity at the University of Bath in the Faculty of Science , starting September 2027 . This interdisciplinary project sits at the interface of artificial intelligence , protein engineering , enzymology , and structural biology . The research will investigate why closely related enzymes in the same family act either as peptidases (peptide-cutting proteases) or ligases (peptide-joining enzymes). The project combines AI-driven protein analysis , directed enzyme evolution , biochemical char...

PhD opportunity at the University of Leicester in AI-designed binders, secretome research, and discovery proteomics . This funded CASE PhD project explores whether AI-designed mini-binders can be made selective enough to recognize the right protein target in complex biological samples. The work focuses on the secretome and aims to create new tools for discovery science and future diagnostics. You will use existing proteomic datasets to identify secreted proteins of interest, design binders with ...