Two Fully Funded PhD Positions in Plant Physiology, Molecular Biology, and Citrus Climate Adaptation Universitat Jaume I in Spain

PhD opportunity at the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) in Spain, within the MedAcidWarm project and the MedRecover Research Group . The project sits at the intersection of marine biology , climate change , microbiology , molecular biology , and chemistry . The selected candidate will study how benthic invertebrates and their associated microbiomes respond to ocean warming and ocean acidification , using methods such as micro-CT , metabolomics , microbiome analysis , and transcriptomics ....

PhD opportunity at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain. This funded PhD project, part of the CRG International PhD Fellowships Programme 2027, focuses on the causes of clonal expansions of blood stem cells . The research asks why blood stem cell clones expand during ageing, increasing the risk of blood cancer and cardiovascular disease, even when most expansions do not have known driver mutations. The successful candidate will work on single-cell multi-omic and functional-g...

PhD opportunity at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain. This funded PhD project is part of the CRG International PhD Programme 2027 and focuses on decoding the molecular rules by which sensor proteins can monitor highly diverse and specific environmental chemicals . The project combines large-scale mutagenesis and functional data generation , AI-enhanced evolutionary modeling , and engineering of chemically inducible protein folds . It is a strong fit for candidates interes...

PhD opportunity at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain on Decoding the Poly(A) Tail: RNA Regulation and Cancer . The project is hosted by the Gebauer lab and supervised by Dr Fátima Gebauer . Research focuses on RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) , mRNA translation , poly(A) tail biology , genomics , and how RNA regulatory networks influence cancer progression and cancer cell plasticity. A key aim is to develop methods to identify and characterize the poly(A)-tail-bound proteome...

The University of the Balearic Islands offers a PhD position focused on the evolution and functional diversification of Rubisco, the CO₂-fixing enzyme, in extremophile photosynthetic organisms. This research aims to uncover how environmental extremes such as temperature stress, water limitation, salinity, and CO₂ availability have influenced Rubisco performance across evolutionary lineages. The project integrates plant and microbial ecophysiology, enzymology, and evolutionary biology to understa...