PhD Opportunities in Transcriptomics in Austria

This PhD project investigates how the resident virome of insects shapes immune responses and fitness, and how this in turn influences interactions with incoming virus infections. You will work on fundamental questions in insect virology using lepidopteran species as the study system. The project focuses on defining virome composition, testing how resident viral communities affect insect life-history traits and responses to infection, and examining vertical transmission of the virome across gener...

The BOVIGUARD project at the University of Liège is seeking a PhD candidate to investigate the genetic determinants of immune variation in Belgian Blue cattle. The project brings together systems immunology, genomics, and bioinformatics to understand how genetic variation shapes immune responses and disease resistance in this breed. The student will work across a collaborative research environment involving the laboratories of Prof. Laurent Gillet (Immunology, FARAH), Prof. Carole Charlier, and ...

The University of Basel is offering a fully funded PhD position in molecular microbiology within the Biozentrum’s Knut Drescher Research Group in Switzerland. The research focuses on bacterial biofilms and their roles in infection biology. The doctoral project will involve investigating bacterial communities using transcriptomics, bacterial genetics and confocal microscopy. This combination of approaches offers training in molecular microbiology, microbial genetics, imaging and infection-focused...

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 ...