PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Single Cell Analysis in United Kingdom

The University of Nottingham is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the ERC-funded WATER-BLIND project, which investigates how plant roots sense and respond to water stress. The research will use the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana to identify novel genes and regulatory pathways involved in sensing water availability. A central focus is understanding how ion fluxes and mechanosensing pathways contribute to root adaptation to transient water stress. The project is suited to researchers...

The University of Oxford is recruiting a Senior Postdoctoral Research Scientist to join the internationally recognised Oxford Endometriosis CaRe Centre (EndoCaRe) within the Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health. Based at the Women’s Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, the postholder will contribute to a translational research programme conducted in collaboration with Hirundo Biosciences. The research will translate human genetic discoveries into potential new treatments fo...

[Fees plus stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD studentship at the University of Exeter on next-generation machine learning for predicting genetic interactions in cancer, with a specific focus on pancreatic cancer. The project sits at the interface of computational genomics, machine learning, and cancer biology, and is funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC). The research tackles a major challenge in oncology: identifying genetic interactions, including synthetic lethality, that on...

[Funded studentship with fees covered and a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] University of Exeter PhD Studentship in Decoding the rules of human gene interaction networks using combinatorial functional genomics . This funded doctoral project sits at the interface of functional genomics, molecular genetics, imaging, bioinformatics, statistics and data science. It addresses a major challenge in human genetics: understanding how combinations of genes interact to shape cellular phenotypes a...

PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford, Department of Biochemistry, in the laboratory of Rebecca V Berrens. This project focuses on how human genetic variation shapes transposable element silencing and epigenetic regulation. The successful candidate will explore why some transposable elements remain silent in the genome while others escape repression and potentially affect gene regulation. Research methods and themes include single-cell and long-read sequencing, specifically CELLO-seq and F...

[4-year fully funded Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentship including tuition fees, a stipend of £21,805 (2026/27 rate), and a Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] This is a fully funded PhD studentship at the University of East Anglia, within the Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Programme (NRPDTP), for October 2027 entry. The project, Plant temperature signalling via modulation of small-RNA signalling , is supervised by...

[4-year Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentship; tuition fees paid directly to the University; stipend of £21,805 for 2026/27; Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] PhD Studentship: A Single-Cell Atlas of the Euglena gracilis Cell Cycle at the University of East Anglia, conducted with the Earlham Institute and the Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership. This project focuses on Euglena gracilis , an unusual single-cel...

[Fully funded 4-year Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentship including payment of tuition fees, a stipend for living expenses (£21,805 for 2026/27), and a Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] PhD Studentship at the University of East Anglia in partnership with The Sainsbury Laboratory and the John Innes Centre. This project asks a fascinating question in plant biology: where do plants make their medicine? When a pathogen attacks, infected l...

PhD opportunity at the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP), Department of Biology, University of York , in collaboration with the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge . This project sits at the intersection of plant biology , engineering biology , 3D imaging , single-cell genomics , spatial transcriptomics , and computational genomics . The research asks how cells from two evolutionarily distant plant species recognise each other, reprogramme their identities, and form...