PhD Studentship: Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance of Responses to Environmental Stress University of East Anglia in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in the School of Biological Sciences on Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance of Responses to Environmental Stress . This project investigates how environmental stress responses may be transmitted across generations through non-genetic / epigenetic inheritance . Using Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system, the research will examine whether key cellular stress responses can be inherited, whether this improves survival and fitness under stress...

PhD opportunity at The Francis Crick Institute with Dr Ekaterina Osipova on genetic mechanisms of metabolic rate control in birds and mammals . This project focuses on how metabolic rate varies across animals and how genetic elements, genes, and regulatory regions shape those differences. The work combines comparative genomics , evolution , genomics , bioinformatics , molecular genetics , and potentially lab-based validation . The lab uses evolutionary rate-based methods and machine-learning app...

PhD opportunity in chemical communication and speciation at the University of St Andrews This EASTBIO-funded PhD project in the School of Biology focuses on pheromones, cuticular hydrocarbons, evolutionary genetics, bioinformatics, behavioural ecology, and speciation biology . The project is based at the University of St Andrews and is supervised by Prof Mike Ritchie and Dr N Bailey . The research asks how divergence in pheromone detection and production contributes to sexual isolation and rapid...

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom: From brain to germline: how perception affects genetic inheritance (IMMLER_UEA_ARIES27). This competition-funded PhD project explores how perceived temperature changes, not only actual heat stress, can influence the germline and shape transgenerational inheritance in zebrafish. The project sits at the intersection of biology , neuroscience , environmental science , genomics , bioinformatics , reproductive biology , deve...

PhD opportunity at the University of St Andrews in the School of Biology on FoxP2, vocal learning, speech and language evolution, transgenic bats, molecular genetics, neuroscience, bioinformatics . This EASTBIO/BBSRC-funded 4-year PhD project investigates how humans evolved speech and language by studying vocal learning in bats, a rare mammalian model for complex communication. The project focuses on the molecular and neural mechanisms of vocal learning, including the role of FoxP2 , a gene impl...