Postdoctoral Research Associate/Fellow in Bacterial Pathogens, Planthopper Vectors and Crop Biosecurity University of Exeter in United Kingdom

Fully funded PhD opportunity in plant pathology and population genomics Rothamsted Research, with the PhD registered at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom, is offering a doctoral project titled Population Genomics and Evolution of Wheat Take-all Under Diverse Agronomic and Seed Treatment Practices for Integrated Pathogen Management . The research will investigate the population genomics and evolution of the pathogen responsible for wheat take-all disease under different agronomic pract...

PhD opportunity at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, United Kingdom: Manipulating meiotic crossover control in wheat . This project sits at the intersection of genetics , genomics , plant cell biology , molecular genetics , bioinformatics , and quantitative genetics , with a strong applied focus on improving wheat breeding. The research asks whether meiotic crossover patterns in wheat can be deliberately altered to increase recombination in regions of the genome that are normally difficult to br...

PhD opportunity at the John Innes Centre in the Saunders Lab on deciphering critical regulators in wheat rust immunity . The project focuses on plant pathology , wheat genetics , molecular biology , bioinformatics , microbiology , and plant biology , with an emphasis on how branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) influence salicylic acid-mediated defence against yellow rust in wheat. The research aims to uncover the link between BCAA accumulation and activation of the MYB/SANT transcription factor Ta...

[4-year PhD CASE studentship with tuition fees paid directly to the University, a stipend of £21,805 for 2026/27, and a Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] This is a 4-year Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD CASE studentship hosted at the University of East Anglia and based at the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with Tozer Seeds. The project asks how celery can be future-proofed against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. apii race 4, a highly virulent...

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...