PhD Studentship: The Cardiac Positioning System – How Do Heart Progenitors Find Their Way? University of East Anglia in United Kingdom

The Gurdon Institute is advertising two four-year PhD studentships in Developmental Biology at the University of Cambridge. The studentships acknowledge and celebrate the contributions of Professor Sir John Gurdon (1933–2025). These opportunities are intended for doctoral researchers interested in developmental biology and related research areas. Further information about eligibility, funding, application requirements, research projects, and deadlines is available through the linked Cambridge we...

[4-year Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentship; tuition fees covered directly to the University; stipend of £21,805 for 2026/27; Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] PhD studentship at the University of East Anglia, based in the Ding laboratory at the John Innes Centre, on how RNA behaves in plant cells during cold conditions. This project focuses on COOLAIR, a family of antisense long non-coding RNAs produced from the FLOWERING LOCUS C (F...

PhD Scholarship: AI-Driven Antibody and Protein Design, from Algorithm to Experiment at Imperial College London , Department of Chemical Engineering, with Dr Pietro Sormanni . The Sormanni Lab develops data-driven technologies for rational antibody design and protein design , combining artificial intelligence , laboratory directed evolution, and biophysics to create new or improved antibodies and proteins. The project offers two complementary directions: (1) methods development focused on comput...

[PhD studentship funded by BBSRC through the Midlands Integrated Biosciences Training Partnership, in partnership with the University of Warwick, University of Birmingham, Aston University, Harper Adams University, Coventry University, and the University of Leicester.] PhD studentship at the University of Birmingham exploring the hidden immune system of fungi and the role of NLR genes. The project asks how fungal NLRs contribute to immune-like responses in fungi, an area that is much less unders...

[Funded studentship providing full fees and a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7; funded by the EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter focused on the functional interpretation of human NF1 genetic variation using precision genome editing and in vivo phenotyping. This project addresses neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a multisystem genetic disorder caused by variants in the NF1 gene and associated with abnormal pigmentation, nerv...