PhD Opportunities in Genetics

The University of Oslo is offering a doctoral research fellowship at the Centre for Precision Psychiatry, affiliated with the Institute of Clinical Medicine and conducted in collaboration with the Department of Medical Genetics at Oslo University Hospital. The PhD project, Multimodal metabolic markers for mechanisms and predictive trajectories of Alzheimer’s disease , is part of the Back2Future project led by Professor Srdjan Djurovic. It will investigate whether early, heritable metabolic and p...

This internship/fellowship is based at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command - Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience , within the Integrated Systems Biology Branch . The project is centered on integrative biology approaches to military-relevant health, with a focus on understanding the etiology of health problems and developing solutions that support performance, resilience, and readiness. Participants will work under a men...

The Max Planck School of Cognition offers a doctoral programme in cognition based in Leipzig and delivered in English . It is a structured PhD programme designed to connect research across multiple fields, including artificial intelligence, biology, cognitive neuroscience, genetics, linguistics, mathematics, neurobiology, neuroimaging, neurology, neurophysics, philosophy, physics, psychiatry, and psychology. The programme is explicitly multidisciplinary and is aimed at excellent international ap...

The International Max Planck Research School on Interdisciplinary Plant Biology is offering seven fully funded PhD positions in computational and experimental plant sciences in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research and the University of Cologne in Germany. The graduate school investigates fundamental biological processes in plants and develops knowledge and materials that can support innovative plant breeding. Research projects span reproductive development, org...

The University of East Anglia’s School of Biological Sciences is offering a funded, full-time PhD studentship in Norwich, United Kingdom, focused on alternative splicing regulation by small nuclear RNA (snRNA) modifications . Based in Dr Alper Akay’s RNA (epi)genetics laboratory, the project will investigate how spliceosomal snRNA modifications regulate RNA splicing and gene-specific splice-site choice. Research will use the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and human cells to examine effects on t...

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) is offering a PhD position in the Connectome Lab at the Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR) for a project at the interface of neuroimaging, genetics, computational neuroscience, neurodiversity, and brain evolution. The project investigates how variation in brain anatomy and connectivity shapes human brain diversity, and how these patterns compare across species. Using large-scale human neuroimaging datasets together with comparative data from ...

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...

UiT The Arctic University of Norway is advertising a PhD Fellow in Marine Molecular Ecology based in Tromsø, Norway. This position is suited to candidates interested in marine biodiversity, molecular ecology, and the application of genetic and genomic approaches to understand marine organisms and ecosystems. The role is part of UiT Norges arktiske universitet, a leading Arctic research university with strong expertise in marine science and northern ecosystems. The listed contacts for questions a...

The Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research (CGA) in Germany is offering up to 12 fully funded PhD positions for highly motivated and talented researchers interested in ageing biology and related biomedical sciences. This structured PhD training programme is based in Cologne and is run in a cutting-edge international research environment jointly connected to the University of Cologne Excellence Cluster on Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), the University Hospital, and the ...