FSE PhD President's Doctoral Scholarship: Phase-optimised PUFA Production in Oleaginous Yeast via Transcriptomics-Guided Enzyme-Constrained Metabolic Modelling The University of Manchester in United Kingdom

This PhD studentship at the University of Birmingham develops a mechanistic mathematical framework to explain how biofilm-associated infections lead to host-cell damage. The project focuses on the coupled biology of biofilm growth, nutrient transport, bacterial toxins, reactive oxygen species, inflammatory signalling, DNA damage, repair failure, and host-cell viability. The student will build and analyse models that connect biofilm structure with local biochemical gradients and tissue injury acr...

[Home tuition fees plus a Doctoral Stipend for up to 4 years.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter in From Variants to Placental Function: Using Cell-free DNA to Dissect the Functional Genomics of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes . This project explores how genetic variants influence placental biology and adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preeclampsia, foetal growth restriction, and pre-term delivery. The research uses cell-free DNA (cfDNA) from maternal blood as a minimally invasive way to i...

[Home tuition fees plus a Doctoral Stipend for up to 4 years.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter on rare variant functional genomics for better understanding, prevention and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders. This interdisciplinary studentship focuses on uncovering the genetic architecture and biological mechanisms underlying disabling musculoskeletal conditions such as osteoarthritis and Dupuytren’s contracture. The project combines large-scale human genomics, statistical analysi...

[Funding of fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] This is a fully funded PhD studentship at the University of Exeter focused on decoding cellular diversity in the human brain and functionally annotating neuronal subtypes across development and disease. The project addresses a major challenge in neuroscience: while single-cell RNA sequencing has revealed many excitatory and inhibitory neuronal subtypes, the regulatory mechanisms that establish and maintain these identities are sti...

The London Interdisciplinary Biosciences Consortium (LIDo) is advertising fully funded PhD studentships for September 2027 entry. The programme is a collaborative doctoral training partnership focused on bioscience and biotechnology , with strong interdisciplinary training across biological sciences , computer science , AI , machine learning , data science , mathematical modelling , and related physical, chemical, engineering, and computational methods. Students will train within a consortium of...