Surface Engineering of Inorganic Nanoparticles NIAB in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at Aston University in cell membrane engineering for biotechnology , with a focus on biophysics , biochemistry , microbial fermentations , and industrial biotechnology . The project aims to alter microbial cell membranes to improve tolerance to bioprocessing stresses and increase product yields in industrially relevant microorganisms. The research combines in vitro assays , microbial cell culture , omics technologies , genetic engineering , and iterative strain design-build cycle...

University of Oxford is advertising a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Laboratory-based Sciences at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering , Department of Engineering Science (Headington), United Kingdom. The post sits within the EPSRC-funded Beyond Antibiotics research programme and focuses on evaluating the effect of clinically viable physical stimuli, especially biomedical ultrasound with/without ultrasound-responsive agents, on antimicrobial and antibiofilm efficacy and on host tissue phy...

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in Click-to-Connect Cytochromes: Modular Components for Sustainable Electrical Circuits . This project sits at the intersection of biochemistry , biophysics , biotechnology , molecular biology , physical chemistry , and structural biology . The research will engineer cytochromes for site-selective covalent linkage to multiple redox partners and electrodes, aiming to create proof-of-principle protein-based electronic circuitry. The work builds on p...

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia (School of Chemistry) in Norwich, United Kingdom. The project is titled Engineering protein nanocages for biotechnology applications and is supervised by Professor Nick Le Brun in the Le Brun lab. This multidisciplinary PhD focuses on protein engineering, biochemistry, structural biology, biotechnology, and microbiology . The research aims to engineer bacterial and human ferritins as nanocage platforms for encapsulating small molecules, peptides, ...

PhD opportunity at King’s College London in the Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics on molecular mechanisms of RNA–protein interactions and their dysregulation in human disease . This project focuses on how RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) recognize structured RNA elements, how their conformations are remodeled, and how post-translational modifications such as phosphorylation regulate translation and complex assembly. The research combines structural biology , biophysics , RNA biochemistry...