PhD Studentship: Endosymbiosis-Mediated Regulation of Nuclear Calcium Signalling University of East Anglia in United Kingdom

NEW PhD opportunity in molecular plant biology , plant cell engineering , and weed control at Royal Holloway University of London , in collaboration with University College London and Syngenta Jealott’s Hill . The project is titled “Engineering plant cells circuitries for multiparametric high-throughput platforms for weed control (EngCiWeCo)” and is advertised as a 4-year ICASE PhD studentship funded by the London Interdisciplinary Biosciences Consortium (LIDo) . This is a research-intensive doc...

[Fully funded studentship covering fees, maintenance stipend of £21,805 p.a. for 2026/27, and a research training and support grant (RTSG). Limited international fee waivers available; does not cover relocation, visa costs, or the health surcharge.] PhD Studentship at the University of East Anglia: Balancing Wheat Rust Resilience and Soil Microbial Diversity This PhD project investigates how disrupting wheat disease susceptibility genes changes root exudation and shapes the wheat rhizosphere mic...

[Fully funded for 4 years, including full Home and International tuition fees plus a UKRI stipend at the 2027-28 rate.] PhD Studentship at the University of Plymouth in collaboration with the University of Exeter. This project, Uncovering the impact of multiple anthropogenic stress factors on rhizosphere plant-microbe interactions , investigates how combinations of global change pressures such as warming, drought, soil contaminants and pesticides affect the plant-soil interface. The research foc...

[4-year Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD DTP studentship; includes 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.] PhD Studentship: Engineering Fitness in Disease-Resistant Crops at the University of East Anglia . This PhD studentship explores a major challenge in agricultural biotechnology: how to engineer crop disease resistance without compromising plant growth and yie...

[4-year Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentship including tuition fees, an annual stipend of £21,805 (2026/27 rate), and a Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] PhD Studentship at the University of East Anglia: Investigating the ‘cry-for-help’ Effect in Wheat. This project explores how wheat roots respond to pathogen attack by recruiting beneficial soil microbes, a phenomenon known as the ‘cry-for-help’ effect. The successful candidate will ...