PhD Opportunities in Transcriptomics in Japan

[For eligible students, the studentship covers home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend.] This PhD studentship explores how anthropogenic contaminants interact with global change stressors to alter the role of zooplankton in marine biogeochemistry. The project focuses on key planktonic organisms, including copepods, and asks how exposure to mixtures of plastics, plastic alternatives and metals affects their physiology, behaviour and ecological functioning. The research is designed to co...

The University of Basel is offering a PhD position in the Plant Microbe Interactions research group within the Department of Environmental Sciences. The project examines how complex soil microbiomes influence plant growth and defence, with a focus on the genetic and immune mechanisms that allow some plant genotypes to benefit from particular microbiome communities. As part of the Swiss National Science Foundation project “Decoding plant growth in response to complex soil microbiomes” , the docto...

[4-year PhD studentship with annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate (currently £21,805 per year) plus £1,000 per year enhancement, and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full 4-year programme.] This PhD studentship at The University of Manchester investigates how microbes sense and respond to anthropogenic molecules released from discarded plastics. The project is framed around a major environmental and biological question: whether microbial communities can detect small-...

[Funded through the CENTA3 DLA by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Funding covers an annual stipend, tuition fees at home-fee level, and a Research Training Support Grant. International students are eligible up to 30% of the cohort, but funding does not cover additional costs of moving or residing in the UK.] This PhD studentship focuses on the microbial cycling of lipids in the ocean, combining laboratory and field-based approaches to understand how marine lipid compounds are tr...

These two PhD fellowships are part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network Stripes&Stars at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences (PLEN), University of Copenhagen . The positions sit within an AI-driven effort to uncover plant metabolic pathways linked to flower and fruit colour, with a particular focus on specialised metabolites such as anthocyanins and other flavonoids in petunia, calibrachoa, poinsettia and bilberry. The two doctoral candidates will form the computational ...

[Annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate of £21,805 per year plus a £1,000 per annum enhancement, and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full 4-year programme.] This PhD studentship at The University of Manchester focuses on improving the production of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) in oleaginous yeasts using a transcriptomics-guided, enzyme-constrained metabolic modelling approach. The project aims to connect RNA-seq data, proteomics, genome-scale metabolic models, ...

A PhD position is available in the Neurogenesis & Neurodegeneration group at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam, within a collaborative project involving the Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences at the University of Amsterdam . The work is led in the Salta lab , headed by Evgenia Salta , and sits in a research environment focused on the cellular and molecular basis of brain function and dysfunction. The project addresses how repeated mild traumatic brain injury affects the ...

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 ...