PhD Opportunities in Transcriptomics

This doctoral project is based in the Bok Lab at Lund University and sits within the Lund Vision Group, a collaborative research environment focused on comparative visual science across the animal kingdom. The group brings together several labs and a broad mix of expertise, with work spanning jellyfishes, insects, crustaceans, squids, and vertebrates. The environment combines optics, electrophysiology, theoretical modelling, microscopy, molecular biology, and behavioural experiments to investiga...

A PhD opportunity is available in Alper Akay’s group to study RNA modifications and splicing , with relevance to the regulation of gene expression. The project is offered in collaboration with James Smith and Wilfried Haerty at the University of East Anglia and Earlham Institute in the United Kingdom. The opportunity is open to students who qualify for home-fee status, including UK, settled, and Irish students who meet the relevant residency requirements. Funding details, eligibility criteria be...

[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...

Fully funded PhD position in molecular microbiology is available at the Drescher Lab, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland . The doctoral thesis will investigate emergent behaviours in bacterial biofilm communities , with a focus on molecular microbiology and bacterial community biology. The project may involve approaches such as transcriptomics, bacterial genetics, confocal microscopy, bioinformatics, and microfluidic systems. Applicants should hold a Master's degree with a research the...

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...

A four-year PhD position is available in Cancer Immunology and Leukemia Stem Cell Biology at the University of Bern, Inselspital, in Bern, Switzerland. The successful candidate will join a translational cancer research team working in tumor immunology. The project investigates how leukemia stem cells interact with immune cells, especially natural killer (NK) cells and B cells, within the bone marrow microenvironment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Research methods include cancer immunology and ...

Wageningen University & Research in Wageningen, Netherlands, is offering a fully funded PhD position in insect virology within the NWO Vici project “Invisible influencers: How hidden virus infections shape insect life.” The project investigates how resident insect viromes affect immunity, fitness, life-history traits and responses to incoming virus infections. The PhD researcher will define viromes in several lepidopteran species, study vertical virus transmission and transgenerational immune pr...

[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...

[Funded studentship providing fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD studentship at the University of Exeter on the functional genomic characterisation of genetic risk for diabetic neuropathy using human stem cell models. This project addresses a major complication of diabetes that affects peripheral sensory nerves and currently has no treatment that halts or reverses disease progression. The research focuses on APOE, a genetic risk factor with links to neuropathy severity, an...