PhD Studentship in Engineering Biology, Enzyme Engineering and Sustainability at Newcastle University Newcastle University in United Kingdom

Joshua Lawrence is starting a new group at the University of Warwick School of Life Sciences next September and is advertising two funded PhD opportunities . The lab will be interdisciplinary, combining synthetic biology , electrochemistry , and biophysical methods to map the bioenergetic pathways of microorganisms and engineer them for sustainable biotechnologies. The projects are collaborative with Julie Macpherson and Joseph Beckwith in the Department of Chemistry . Funding is through the Mid...

🚨 PhD opportunity in microbiology , materials science , and environmental sustainability at Queen's University Belfast . The project, titled “Can bio-based additives enhance microbial recruitment and degradation of plastics without compromising performance?” , will investigate whether components inspired by natural polymers can promote microbial colonisation and improve plastic biodegradation while preserving key material properties. The student will work on developing and characterising novel c...

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...

Postdoctoral Fellow in AI-Based Design of De Novo Protein Biofilm Systems at Lund University , Sweden. This postdoctoral position sits at the intersection of AI-based protein design , synthetic biology , biofilm engineering , and programmable living materials . The project focuses on the de novo design of protein biofilm systems and combines computational protein design with experimental biology to create new molecular functions and mechanisms for controlling the formation, organization, and pro...

[Full award for UK students: home fees plus stipend; course fees covered at the UK rate (at least £10,940 per year) and a tax-free stipend of at least £21,805 per year for the first year and for a further two and a half years. There may be flexibility for international students.] PhD Studentship in Control and Engineering Biology at the University of Oxford This 3.5-year D.Phil. studentship explores Synthetic Biology for fundamental science and application scale-up . The project sits at the inte...