Understanding the role of EXO70 proteins in plant defence across fruit crops Massey University in New Zealand

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...

Our NRPDTP Doctoral Training Partnership PhD projects are now open for an October 2027 start , based with leading supervisors at the John Innes Centre and the wider Norwich Research Park network. This is a PhD opportunity in bioscience , with research themes likely spanning plant and microbial biology, molecular bioscience, and related life-science areas. The post highlights a doctoral training partnership environment, which is typically designed for research training with multiple supervisors a...

PhD opportunity at the University of Dundee in plant parasite effectors , host-parasite interactions , and nanobody-based tools . This EASTBIO/BBSRC-funded project is hosted in the groups of Dr Jorunn Bos and Prof Paul Birch in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Dundee , with links to the James Hutton Institute. The project focuses on developing new tools to study how plant parasites deliver and use effector molecules during infection/infestation, and how these effectors inter...

Rutgers University is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Associate for the Gallavotti Lab at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology on the New Brunswick campus in Piscataway, New Jersey, United States. The postdoctoral researcher will conduct experimental research on cis-regulatory regions in the maize genome, including protein-DNA interactions and identification of regulatory regions. Responsibilities include designing and carrying out experiments, analyzing data, preparing manuscripts, present...

PhD opportunity at the University of Edinburgh in chromosome evolution, karyotype evolution, comparative genomics, phylogenomics, genetics, molecular biology, plant biology , and bioinformatics. This project, supervised by Dr A Twyford in the School of Biological Sciences , investigates chromosome number and genome-structure evolution across the Orobanchaceae , a diverse plant family containing both free-living and parasitic species. The research will use newly available chromosome-level genome ...