PhD Opportunities in Genetics in United Kingdom

The University of East Anglia’s School of Biological Sciences is offering a funded, full-time PhD studentship in Norwich, United Kingdom, focused on alternative splicing regulation by small nuclear RNA (snRNA) modifications . Based in Dr Alper Akay’s RNA (epi)genetics laboratory, the project will investigate how spliceosomal snRNA modifications regulate RNA splicing and gene-specific splice-site choice. Research will use the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and human cells to examine effects on t...

The Wellcome Sanger Institute is inviting applications for its 4-year PhD Programme, beginning on 1 October 2027 at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. The programme is designed for students interested in genomics, genome research, genetics, molecular biology, bioinformatics and biomedical science. At least 12 funded PhD studentships are available on a competitive basis. Successful students receive full financial support, including University of Cambridge tuiti...

Two fully funded PhD studentships are available in the United Kingdom, with projects spanning computational biology, biomedical AI, epigenomics and functional genomics. Funding is available for UK home students only; international or overseas tuition fees are not covered. Each studentship includes UK home tuition fees and a stipend at UKRI rates. The first project, Developing Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Investigate Epigenomic Regulatory Logic in Healthy and Disease States , will use co...

[Fully funded studentship covering fees, maintenance stipend of £21,805 p.a. for 2026/27, and a research training and support grant (RTSG). Limited international places available with home/international fee difference waived; relocation, visa, and health surcharge costs are not covered.] PhD Studentship: Postreproductive Maternal Care and the Evolution of Sex Differences in Lifespan at the University of East Anglia. This project addresses a major question in evolutionary ecology: why do some ani...

[Funding of fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7. Funded by the EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter: Allele-resolved genetics and epigenetics in type 2 diabetes This funded PhD studentship explores how genetic variation alters gene regulation in type 2 diabetes (T2D), with a focus on pancreatic islets. The project addresses a major challenge in human genetics: disease-associated DNA changes often act through regula...

[Home tuition fees and a Doctoral Stipend for up to 4 years.] This PhD studentship at the University of Exeter investigates how defects in the minor spliceosome can trigger a highly specific form of autoimmune diabetes. The project is built around an important biological puzzle: inherited changes in the minor spliceosome components RNU4ATAC and RNU6ATAC can cause monogenic autoimmune diabetes, yet the minor splicing machinery is used in every cell. The studentship aims to identify which U12-intr...

PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford, Department of Biochemistry, in the laboratory of Rebecca V Berrens. This project focuses on how human genetic variation shapes transposable element silencing and epigenetic regulation. The successful candidate will explore why some transposable elements remain silent in the genome while others escape repression and potentially affect gene regulation. Research methods and themes include single-cell and long-read sequencing, specifically CELLO-seq and F...

New fully funded PhD opportunity through the EastBio DTP programme at the University of St Andrews, within a marine biology research group led by Carmel McDougall and co-supervised by Tim Bean. The project focuses on improving hatchery production of the native oyster Ostrea edulis . The first phase will involve experimental work in the Scottish Ocean Institute’s aquarium facility to investigate methods for manipulating oyster sex, with the longer-term aim of optimising broodstock sex ratios and ...

[Fully funded studentship covering fees, a maintenance stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/27, and a research training and support grant (RTSG). Limited support for international applicants includes a waiver of the difference between home and international fees; relocation, visa, and health surcharge costs are not covered.] PhD Studentship at the University of East Anglia in Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance of Responses to Environmental Stress . This research project investigates how o...