PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Cryo Electron Microscopy in United Kingdom

Harry Low’s Lab at Imperial College London is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to investigate the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems. The project will use cryo-electron microscopy ( cryo-EM ) and structural biology approaches to understand how these systems function at the molecular level. The work sits at the intersection of bacterial pathogenesis, membrane remodelling and antibiotic discovery. By characterising secretion machinery and its mechanisms, the project aims to...

The University of Bristol is accepting applications for a funded PhD investigating how free fatty acids regulate beta-coronavirus infection. Co-supervised by Christiane Berger-Schaffitzel, Andrew Davidson, Harriet Mears and Paul Verkade, the project will examine how free fatty acids influence coronavirus infection, replication and evolution. It builds on the discovery of a conserved fatty acid-binding pocket in the coronavirus spike protein. The research combines structural biology, electron cry...

The University of Cambridge Department of Pathology, in collaboration with AstraZeneca, is offering a four-year, fully funded PhD studentship beginning 1 October 2027. The project, based at the University of Cambridge and the AstraZeneca Discovery Centre in Cambridge, investigates improved 2A peptides for co-translational separation of polyproteins. 2A peptides enable ribosome skipping, allowing multiple proteins or pathway components to be expressed from a single promoter. The research will inv...

[Fully funded 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 in the Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Programme (NRPDTP): Rewiring Photosynthetic Pathways in a Purple Bacterium . This fully funded 4-year PhD project focuses on engineering the purple phototrophic ba...

Coming soon at the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, The University of Leeds: two postdoctoral positions and one PhD position will soon be advertised. The research themes mentioned are outer membrane protein assembly mechanisms and cryoEM of amyloid. One postdoc and one PhD student will be linked to outer membrane protein assembly mechanisms, while one postdoc will focus on cryoEM of amyloid. The post is shared by Sheena Radford, Astbury Professor of Biophysics at The University o...

Research Associate on the structural biology of bacterial secretion systems at Imperial College London (South Kensington Campus, London, UK). This is a postdoctoral research opening in the Department of Infectious Disease , working with Prof Harry Low and the Low Lab on the molecular mechanism of bacterial secretion systems, including the Tad and Type 4 pilus systems. The project is strongly focused on structural biology , cryo-electron microscopy (SPA, in-situ SPA, tomography), TIRF microscopy ...

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in rewiring photosynthetic pathways in a purple bacterium , hosted by the School of Biological Sciences and supervised by Professor Tom Clarke . This project focuses on biochemistry , biotechnology , microbiology , molecular biology , and structural biology . The research aims to engineer Rhodopseudomonas palustris so that light-driven iron oxidation and DMSO respiration can operate together, enabling light-driven iron and DMSO reduction while byp...

Research Associate in Structural Cell Biology at The Rosalind Franklin Institute (Harwell, United Kingdom). This is a postdoctoral opening focused on structural cell biology , cryo-electron tomography , in-situ structural biology , and computational reconstruction of macromolecular structures from human tissue data. The Grange group is developing tools to image the 3-dimensional organisation of macromolecular complexes within brain tissues, using fast vitrification of surgical biopsies, cryo-foc...

PhD opportunity at the University of Dundee in molecular basis of transcriptional regulation during mammalian pre-implantation development . This project focuses on how pioneer transcription factors regulate trophectoderm lineage commitment during early mammalian development, with emphasis on chromatin biology , nucleosome interactions , and developmental biology . The work combines biochemistry , structural biology , cryo-EM , and cell culture to uncover how transcription factors engage nucleos...