PhD Positions in Microscopy in China

This PhD project at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) focuses on RNA-based plant protection, with an emphasis on spray-induced gene silencing (SIGS) as a strategy to combat crop diseases. The work explores how externally applied double-stranded RNA can reduce pathogen gene expression and how RNA reaches target organisms, is taken up, and remains biologically active. The doctoral student will develop and evaluate SIGS approaches against wheat leaf blotch caused by Zymoseptoria...

This PhD opening is part of a predoctoral research contract at the Autonomous University of Madrid , within the Faculty of Science and the Department of Condensed Matter Physics . The project is titled “Super-resolution visualization of ion dynamics in disordered solid-state electrolytes” and focuses on understanding how ions move inside disordered solid-state electrolyte materials. The successful candidate will join a research environment centered on condensed matter physics, nanoscience and bi...

This PhD project explores single-molecule nanophotonics and plasmonics through the use of metallic nanocavities, metasurfaces and two-dimensional materials to confine light and enhance light–matter coupling at the nanoscale. The research focuses on detecting and spectroscopically analysing mid-infrared signatures of individual molecules. Molecular vibrations provide chemical fingerprints, while molecular frequency upconversion converts absorbed mid-infrared photons into visible photons that can ...

This four-year PhD project at The University of Manchester will develop chemical sensors for measuring tensile forces in living cells and tissues. Mechanical forces influence cellular processes such as cell division, stem cell differentiation and gene expression, as well as tissue-level processes including morphogenesis, wound healing, immune responses and cancer metastasis. However, techniques for measuring forces inside live tissues remain limited. The project will use mechanochromic molecules...

The doctoral project focuses on RNA-based crop protection in two important pathosystems: wheat and potato. The central idea is to use spray-induced gene silencing (SIGS) , where externally applied double-stranded RNA is used to reduce the expression of selected pathogen genes and thereby limit disease development. In wheat, the project aims to establish SIGS against Septoria tritici blotch caused by Zymoseptoria tritici . In potato, the work builds on ongoing research on late blight caused by Ph...

This doctoral position sits within the FAroGels MSCA Doctoral Network and the Department of Food and Nutrition at the University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry. The project, “Aerogels for Oral Lubrication,” explores how dietary-fibre aerogels and cryogels can be designed as functional porous, moisture-responsive materials for food applications, with a particular focus on texture, mouthfeel, and oral processing. The doctoral researcher will investigate how fibre-network organis...

This PhD project in the Vorselen Lab at University Medical Center Utrecht focuses on the biophysics of cellular immunity . The research explores how mechanical forces regulate immune function, with particular attention to how cells receive physical information and how cellular forces shape immune processes in health and disease. You will work on developing new technologies and analysis approaches to study immune cell mechanics. A major part of the project is building new analysis pipelines to in...

Project focus: This PhD project investigates how past viral infection durably remodels the endothelium across organs and how these changes may contribute to post-acute infection syndromes (PAIS), including long COVID. The work is jointly hosted by the laboratories of Dr. Alexander Lercher and Dr. Vibor Laketa at the Center for Integrative Infectious Disease Research (CIID) within Heidelberg’s infectious disease research environment. The project is designed to test the hypothesis that persistent ...

Human Technopole in Milan, Italy, is offering 12 fully funded PhD projects through the HT PhD Programme in partnership with The Open University, UK. The programme covers a broad range of life-science and computational research areas, including computational biology, genetics, machine learning, neuroscience, microscopy, cancer biology, and plant biology. Projects are designed for doctoral researchers interested in using advanced biological, quantitative, and computational approaches to investigat...