PhD Opportunities in Structural Biology in Italy

The University of Helsinki is recruiting a doctoral researcher for the project Inhibiting Protein Synthesis – Old, New, Borrowed, Blue at the Viikki Campus in Helsinki, Finland. The project is based in the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Department of Molecular and Integrative Bioscience, and is led by Principal Investigator Sarah O’Keefe with co-supervision from Brendan Battersby. The research investigates how proteins are made and how protein-synthesis machinery can be inhibi...

DASHH Data Science in Hamburg is a structured doctoral programme at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY in Hamburg, delivered with a wide network of research partners including the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Helmholtz Centre Hereon GmbH, the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, European XFEL, the University of Hamburg, Hamburg University of Technology, Helmut Schmidt University, and Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. The programme focuses on data sc...

The Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) in Berlin is advertising two Ph.D. students in Biophysics/Structural Biology in the Research Unit Molecular Biophysics, headed by Prof. Adam Lange. The project focuses on the structure, dynamics, and function of membrane proteins such as potassium channels and rhomboid proteases, as well as supramolecular assemblies. The research uses an integrated structural biology approach with a strong emphasis on solid-state NMR and cryo-EM. ...

The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain, invites applications to its CRG International PhD Programme 2027. The call offers PhD research opportunities across internationally recognised laboratories working in genomics, molecular and cell biology, computational biology, RNA biology, epigenetics, cancer, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, microbiology and bioengineering. Projects include single-cell genomics and lineage tracing, genome regulation, chromatin and 3D genomics, RNA...

The University of Bristol is accepting applications for a funded PhD investigating how free fatty acids regulate beta-coronavirus infection. Co-supervised by Christiane Berger-Schaffitzel, Andrew Davidson, Harriet Mears and Paul Verkade, the project will examine how free fatty acids influence coronavirus infection, replication and evolution. It builds on the discovery of a conserved fatty acid-binding pocket in the coronavirus spike protein. The research combines structural biology, electron cry...

Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany is seeking a PhD student in fungal natural products within its Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology. The position is part-time at 65% (26 hours per week), fixed for three years, with the goal of doctoral qualification. The externally funded project investigates fungal enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of psilocybin and related indole alkaloids, particularly in basidiomycetes. The doctoral researcher will biochemically characterize enzymes and...

Funded PhD opportunity in viral DNA mimic proteins at the University of Bristol. Professor Mark Dillingham is seeking an enthusiastic PhD student to investigate how bacterial viruses (phages) produce proteins that masquerade as DNA and sabotage molecular machinery in bacterial hosts. The project will focus on discovering new DNA mimic proteins and understanding their mechanisms, including viral targeting of the bacterial DNA-processing enzyme RecBCD. Research will combine computational structura...

[4-year fully funded Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentship including payment of tuition fees, a stipend for living expenses (£21,805 for 2026/27), and a Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] PhD Studentship at the University of East Anglia, based within the Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Programme (NRPDTP), investigating how unusual DNA and RNA structures called G-quadruplexes (G4s) regulate fungal growth and infection...

PhD opportunity in Engineering Biology at the University of Bristol , offered in collaboration with Prof Dek Woolfson through the SWBio DTP . The project is titled Engineering co-translational protein assembly using de novo designed proteins (Project ID: 3544). It asks how proteins assemble while being synthesised on the ribosome, building on advances in protein structure prediction such as AlphaFold and focusing on the folding and assembly of de novo designed coiled-coil proteins during transla...