PhD Studentship: How do fungi and bacteria communicate? Decoding the rules of cross-kingdom microbial interactions University of East Anglia in United Kingdom

[4-year PhD DTP studentship with tuition fees paid directly to the University, a stipend of £21,805 (2026/27 rate), and a Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia / John Innes Centre on the biology of NLR signalling in multicellular, antibiotic-producing Streptomyces. This project investigates how nucleotide-binding and oligomerisation domain-like receptors (NLRs), best known from plant and animal immunity, may control a wider range of...

Fully-funded PhD opportunity in Bat Virology and Metagenomics at the University of Essex , in collaboration with the Quadram Institute and the West Yorkshire Bat Group (WYBG) . The project, titled Virome Dynamics and Viral Discovery in Rehabilitated Bats Revealed by Longitudinal Metagenomics , will investigate how viral communities change in bats during rehabilitation. The research uses longitudinal sampling , shotgun metagenomics , and viral genome discovery , with strong links to virology , mi...

[4-year Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentship including 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 opportunity at the University of East Anglia focused on how protein glycosylation shapes bacterial colonisation and adaptation in the gut. This PhD studentship, part of the Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership, investigates the acce...

[Funding minimum: Home fees student. Funding maximum: International student subject to gaining an NDM studentship.] PhD Studentship at the University of Oxford focused on understanding the double life of Escherichia coli as both a benign gut commensal and a deadly pathogen. This project, based at the John Radcliffe Hospital , forms part of the wider COHORT study led by Professor Susanna Dunachie in collaboration with the Oxford Vaccine Group and the Ellison Institute of Technology . The COHORT s...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at Newcastle University for Black students interested in cancer research , with a project focused on decoding ancestry-specific kinase signalling in prostate cancer and addressing disparities in Black men's health. The project sits within the CRUK Black Leaders in Cancer PhD Scholarship Programme and is designed for students interested in genomics , molecular biology , drug discovery , CRISPR gene editing , RNA sequencing , functional genomics , and bioinformatics . ...