PhD Opportunities in Epigenetics

Bernhard Payer’s laboratory at CHU Sainte-Justine and Université de Montréal is recruiting motivated postdoctoral researchers, PhD students, and MSc students in Montreal, Canada. The team investigates the intersection of epigenetics and reproduction, with research topics including X-chromosome inactivation, pluripotency, stem cell biology, oogenesis, and stem cell-derived in vitro gametogenesis. These projects are relevant to developmental biology, reproductive biology, and maternal and child he...

The Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research (CGA) at the University of Cologne offers a structured doctoral programme in the highly interdisciplinary field of ageing biology. It is run in cooperation with the CECAD Cluster of Excellence, University Hospital Cologne, the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, and the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research. The programme is designed to train a new generation of biomedical scientists focused on the basic biology of ageing and on trans...

PhD position in epigenetics at the K.G. Jebsen Centre of Obesity Research (CORA), University of Oslo, Norway. This PhD project is based at Universitetet i Oslo and is hosted by the K.G Jebsen Centre of Obesity Research (CORA), a research environment focused on obesity biology and related biomedical mechanisms. The advertised position is a doctoral research opportunity in epigenetics, making it a strong fit for candidates interested in gene regulation, molecular and biomedical research, and the b...

The International Max Planck Research School for Biology and Computation (IMPRS-BAC) is recruiting doctoral candidates for a 2027 start at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and Freie Universität Berlin in Berlin, Germany. This interdisciplinary PhD program sits at the intersection of molecular life sciences and computational sciences. It is designed for graduates with backgrounds in molecular biology, biochemistry, mathematics, bioinformatics, or closely related areas, and offers a...

[Home tuition fees plus a Doctoral Stipend for up to 4 years.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter in functional genomic approaches to convergent mechanisms in chromatinopathies . This project explores a major unmet medical need in rare genetic disease research: understanding whether several chromatinopathies share overlapping molecular mechanisms that could be targeted by the same drug treatment. Chromatinopathies are caused by variants in genes involved in chromatin remodelling and are...

The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain, invites applications to its CRG International PhD Programme 2027. The call offers PhD research opportunities across internationally recognised laboratories working in genomics, molecular and cell biology, computational biology, RNA biology, epigenetics, cancer, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, microbiology and bioengineering. Projects include single-cell genomics and lineage tracing, genome regulation, chromatin and 3D genomics, RNA...

Two fully funded PhD studentships are available in the United Kingdom, with projects spanning computational biology, biomedical AI, epigenomics and functional genomics. Funding is available for UK home students only; international or overseas tuition fees are not covered. Each studentship includes UK home tuition fees and a stipend at UKRI rates. The first project, Developing Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Investigate Epigenomic Regulatory Logic in Healthy and Disease States , will use co...

[Funding of fees plus 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: Allele-resolved genetics and epigenetics in type 2 diabetes This funded PhD studentship explores how genetic variation alters gene regulation in type 2 diabetes (T2D), with a focus on pancreatic islets. The project addresses a major challenge in human genetics: disease-associated DNA changes often act through regula...

[Funding of fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] This is a fully funded PhD studentship at the University of Exeter focused on decoding cellular diversity in the human brain and functionally annotating neuronal subtypes across development and disease. The project addresses a major challenge in neuroscience: while single-cell RNA sequencing has revealed many excitatory and inhibitory neuronal subtypes, the regulatory mechanisms that establish and maintain these identities are sti...