PhD Opportunities in Single Cell Analysis in United Kingdom

[Fees plus stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD studentship at the University of Exeter on next-generation machine learning for predicting genetic interactions in cancer, with a specific focus on pancreatic cancer. The project sits at the interface of computational genomics, machine learning, and cancer biology, and is funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC). The research tackles a major challenge in oncology: identifying genetic interactions, including synthetic lethality, that on...

[Funded studentship with fees covered and a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] University of Exeter PhD Studentship in Decoding the rules of human gene interaction networks using combinatorial functional genomics . This funded doctoral project sits at the interface of functional genomics, molecular genetics, imaging, bioinformatics, statistics and data science. It addresses a major challenge in human genetics: understanding how combinations of genes interact to shape cellular phenotypes a...

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...

[4-year fully funded Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentship including tuition fees, a stipend of £21,805 (2026/27 rate), and a Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] This is a fully funded PhD studentship at the University of East Anglia, within the Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Programme (NRPDTP), for October 2027 entry. The project, Plant temperature signalling via modulation of small-RNA signalling , is supervised by...

[4-year Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentship; tuition fees paid directly to the University; stipend of £21,805 for 2026/27; Research Training Support Grant of £5,000 per year.] PhD Studentship: A Single-Cell Atlas of the Euglena gracilis Cell Cycle at the University of East Anglia, conducted with the Earlham Institute and the Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership. This project focuses on Euglena gracilis , an unusual single-cel...

[Fully funded 4-year 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 in partnership with The Sainsbury Laboratory and the John Innes Centre. This project asks a fascinating question in plant biology: where do plants make their medicine? When a pathogen attacks, infected l...

PhD opportunity at the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP), Department of Biology, University of York , in collaboration with the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge . This project sits at the intersection of plant biology , engineering biology , 3D imaging , single-cell genomics , spatial transcriptomics , and computational genomics . The research asks how cells from two evolutionarily distant plant species recognise each other, reprogramme their identities, and form...

PhD opportunity at Newcastle University in prostate cancer organoids , spatial biology , single-cell transcriptomics , and spatial proteomics . The project, “Beyond the Genome: Understanding Prostate Cancer Cell Identity in Men of African Ancestry” , uses human stem-cell-derived prostate organoids to investigate how cancer-associated genetic changes influence cell organisation, identity, and treatment response in models derived from men of African ancestry. This is part of the CRUK Black Leaders...

PhD opportunity at the John Innes Centre in plant temperature signalling via modulation of small-RNA signalling (PENFIELD_J27DTP), based in Norwich, United Kingdom . This project sits within the Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Programme (NRPDTP) and is aimed at students interested in how plants sense and adapt to changing temperatures. The research combines plant biology , genetics , molecular biology , genomics , chromatin biology , and single-cell analysis to investigate ho...