PhD Opportunities in Single Cell Analysis

The Department of Chemistry for Life Sciences at Uppsala University is recruiting a PhD student for a project in analytical chemistry focused on developing novel methods for single-cell analysis and quantification using direct infusion mass spectrometry. The project is centered on optimizing sampling and ionization probes for the sensitive detection of metabolites and lipids from individual cells, with the aim of studying cellular heterogeneity. The work combines custom-built analytical platform...

A PhD position in Evolutionary Genomics is available in the group of Henrik Kaessmann at Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, Germany. The project is part of a highly collaborative research environment at the ZMBH and is focused on major questions in the origins and molecular evolution of organs in mammals and other vertebrates. The lab’s research emphasizes the evolution of gene expression and its regulatory basis, using extensive comparative genomics resources such as single-cell RNA-seq and A...

Garvan Institute of Medical Research is seeking a domestic PhD candidate for a project on the immunogenomics of arthritic joint disease in the Masle-Farquhar Lab. The candidate will apply genomic technologies and analytical pipelines available at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to Garvan’s rapidly growing Arthritis Tissue Biobank. The research will analyse the world’s first single-cell, long-read sequencing dataset integrating transcriptomes, clonotypes, isoforms, and acquired mutations d...

PhD position in Peripheral Neuroscience and Neuroimmunology is available from 2027 in the Cancer Neuroimmunology Laboratory led by Prof. Karen Dixon at the Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Switzerland. The department is a joint venture of the University of Basel and the University Hospitals Basel. The project investigates how peripheral neurons sense disease and influence inflammation, antitumour immunity, and tumour progression. Research will focus on sensory neurons, peripheral ...

[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...

A PhD position is available in Carmen Aguilar’s lab at the Institute of Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Germany, starting in March 2027. The project focuses on host–pathogen interactions during urinary tract infections. Researchers will use human bladder, prostate, and vaginal organoids together with single-cell RNA sequencing, microscopy, and functional genomics to investigate how pathogens interact with human tissues and to identify potential therapeutic strategies....

[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...

PhD opportunity at the University of Sydney in the Early-life Microbiome and Immunity group led by Archita Mishra . The project explores the foundations of human immunity before birth and how the developing immune system is shaped during fetal life. Research themes include immunology , microbiome , human development , and fetal development , with methods such as spatial transcriptomics , single-cell approaches , and tissue imaging . This is a strong fit for students interested in developmental b...