PhD Studentship: Historical Genomics of the Declining Red Squirrel in Britain University of East Anglia in United Kingdom

[Fully funded studentship covering fees, maintenance stipend of £21,805 p.a. for 2026/27, and a research training and support grant (RTSG). Limited international places are available with home/international fee difference waived by the university; additional relocation, visa, and UK health surcharge costs are not covered.] This PhD studentship investigates the historical genomics of the red squirrel in Britain , a species that has experienced a long decline shaped by hunting, deforestation, and ...

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in historical genomics, ancient DNA, conservation genetics, bioinformatics, evolution, and population genetics . This project, supervised by Dr Anders Bergström at the School of Biological Sciences , focuses on the declining red squirrel in Britain . The research will investigate how historical population decline, invasive grey squirrels, hunting, deforestation, and past translocations from continental Europe have shaped the genetic make-up, ances...

PhD opportunity at the University of St Andrews in the School of Biology, within the EASTBIO BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership. This project, “It’s getting hot in here: uncovering the molecular mechanisms underlying changes in social behaviour at increased temperatures,” explores how climate change and rising temperatures alter animal social behaviour and the molecular mechanisms behind those changes. The study system is the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides . The PhD will examine how te...

Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Edinburgh , co-supervised by Rob Young and colleagues at the University of Edinburgh and the Zhejiang Institute. The project is titled Host Receptor Evolution as a Barrier to Viral Spillover and sits at the intersection of virology , human genetics , bioinformatics , and molecular biology . This is a good fit for applicants interested in functional, population, and evolutionary genomics, especially those who want to study how host receptor evolution ma...

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...