PhD Studentship - How Pathogens Emerge: Integrating Large Language Models with Comparative Genomics to Uncover the Zoonotic Potential of Bacteria University of Exeter in United Kingdom

[UK/Home tuition fees plus a Doctoral Stipend matching UK Research Council National Minimum (£21,805 per annum for 2026/27, updated each year) and additional research training and support funding of up to £5,000 per annum.] The University of Exeter is offering a PhD Studentship through the GW4 BioMed3 Doctoral Landscape Programme on the theme of pathogen emergence and zoonotic risk. This project asks a fundamental question in infectious disease research: how do bacterial pathogens emerge from an...

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...

[UK/Home tuition fees plus a doctoral stipend matching the UK Research Council National Minimum (£21,805 per annum for 2026/27, updated each year), with up to £5,000 per annum additional research training and support funding.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter on Advancing Bayesian machine learning methods for precision medicine applications in Type 2 diabetes . This funded doctoral project sits within the GW4 BioMed3 Doctoral Landscape Programme and focuses on developing Bayesian stat...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Exeter in type 1 diabetes and health data science . The project, titled Data-Driven Approaches to Understanding Heterogeneity in Type 1 Diabetes: Towards Better Prediction and Personalised Care , will investigate heterogeneity in type 1 diabetes using large-scale routinely collected healthcare data. The research will primarily use CPRD electronic health records to explore how type 1 diabetes presents and progresses, with the goal of improving pre...

[Four-year funded PhD studentship with UK/Home tuition fees, a Doctoral Stipend matching the UK Research Council National Minimum (£21,805 per annum for 2026/27, updated each year), and additional research training and support funding of up to £5,000 per annum.] The University of Exeter is offering a PhD studentship through the GW4 BioMed3 MRC Doctoral Landscape Programme on the causes and treatment of type 2 diabetes in people who are not overweight. This project addresses an important and unde...